Half English

My mother was half English and I'm half English too

I'm a great big bundle of culture tied up in the red white and blue

I'm a fine example of your Essex man

And I'm well familiar with the Hindustan

Cos my neighbours are half English and I'm half English too



My breakfast was half English and so am I you know

I had a plate of Marmite soldiers washed down with a cappuccino

And I have a veggie curry about once a week

The next day I fry it up as bubble and squeak

Cos my appetites half English and I'm half English too



Dance with me to this very English melody



From morris dancing to Morrissey,

all that stuff came from across the sea



Britannia, she's half English, she speaks Latin at home

St George was born in the Lebanon, how he got here I don't know

And those three lions on your shirt,

They never sprang from England's dirt

Them lions are half English and I'm half English too



Le-li Umma le-li-ya, le-li Umma le-li-ya,

Le-li Umma le-li-ya, bledi g'desh akh! le-li-ya



Oh my country, what a beautiful country you are