This was recorded by Martin Carthy (The Kershaw Sessions) here is some info I downloaded about it (sorry I forget the source) "Aux anciens parapets is a poem by Miles Wooton, a savage bit of satire on American fatcattery, spoken over a tour de force rendering of the Harry Lime Theme from The Third Man, a tune for the zither by Anton Caras. An air of sauntering menace. The title is taken from Rimbaud's Le bateau ivre: "Je regrette l'Europe aux anciens parapets!" For chewing gum, cola, brunch burgers and rye
America
Honor tarts, Sinatra, Mom's apple pie
America For the death of the buffalo, the birth of the blues, For high balls and hot dogs and bootlegger's booze
Honest John, Minuteman, Trident and Cruise
America Dumbo, Rambo, Bonzo, Sue Ellen, J.R.
America
For Elvis and Bing and the Cadillac car
America For space age technology, for stone age finesse, For getting us all in one hell of a mess, With your God save America, God damn the rest
America Nixon, Kissinger, bombs in Vietnam
America
That sly red-necked huckster they call Uncle Sam
America For the sake of the thousands of children who died, For your generals, your senators, your presidents who lied, For their Mickey Mouse morals, Neanderthal pride
America Showbiz and all of the razzamatazz
America Uncle Toms cabin, chain gang, Alcatraz
America Peanuts, popcorn, B movies and glamour parades, Las Vegas, and crap and amusement arcades Ku Klux Klan, Billy Graham and moral crusades
America
We stand against you
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