Tom Robinson Band - Glad To Be Gay (various Verses) lyrics

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The British Police are the best in the world

I don't believe one of these stories I've heard

About pretty policemen in leather and jeans

Showing their leg through a split in the seams

Leering at people and leading them on

Then running them in when they start to respond

The press all ignore it, they don't want to see

Except when the case is... a Tory MP

Pictures of naked young women are best

In the News of the Screws and the popular press

They plaster their pages with bingo and tits

Then add all the scandal and slander that fits

The women at Greenham they smeared and despised

They crucified Elton with gossip and lies

If it's paedophile teachers or lesbian nuns

If it's filth and it's fiction... it's there in the Sun

Have you heard the story about Peter Wells

Who one day was arrested and dragged to the cells

For being in love with a man of 18

The vicar found out they'd been having a scene

The magistrate sent him for trial by the Crown

He even appealed, but they still sent him down

He was only mistreated a couple of years

Cos even in prison they look after the queers

A sense of proportion is where we begin

We're fighting a virus, not punishing sin

The medical facts are ignored or forgot

By the bigots who think it's the Judgement of God

The medics are baffled and caught on the run

They tell us the nightmare has barely begun

While government funding is worse than a joke

Cos saving our lives doesn't win any votes

Now enemies everywhere laugh at the sight

Of gay against lesbian, dyke against dyke

I don't give a toss about who's in the wrong

The ins and the outs - or the faults in this song

We're getting oppressed and arrested and banned

While we bicker politically where we should stand

Forget the aggression from everywhere else

We still do a wonderful job oppressing ourselves

So sit back and watch as they seize all our books

And treat us like lepers and sinners and crooks

Just hope you don't get caught up in the raids

Or pick up a pig or a partner with AIDS

Lie to your workmates & lie to your folks

Put down the clones and tell lesbian jokes

Forget the aggression from everywhere else

While we still do a wonderful job

Oppressing ourselves so try and (SING IF...etc)

With friends and supporteers from over the land

We're gathered together and making a stand

To fight for the right for a home and a job

And to walk without fear of a kick in the gob

Slagged in the media, bashed by the bill

With cheap politicians all making a kill

We're lesbian women, we're men who are gay

We're here and we're human and won't go away

(Source: TomRobinson.com)