Hey England... let's kick it.
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verse one:
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Cops without guns and the NME.
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Should I watch the BBC or should I watch the BBC?
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Look at these crazy coins, is this Lord of the Rings?
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Pounds and pence and Princes and Queens?
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Flipside experience, well not really.
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More familiar than Russia or Chile.
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Up for cricket or squash, or the London zoo?
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Look, you hate George Bush and we do too.
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Fab music scene, though, UK bands are ace,
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And you guys are the most polite of the human race.
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Fish and chips, crumpets, bangers and mash,
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Shakespeare, Donne, Sid Vicious and the Clash.
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You love our movies, we kind of like yours.
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We love the way you talk, "please help help us in these wars."
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You stopped staying "fab," we stopped saying "groovy,"
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Our Scotland is Canada; you saw the South Park movie.
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CHORUS
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I love England and visa versa,
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American perspective in these Visa verses.
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Tea time? Jolly good! Caffeine rush.
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Look, a red a phone booth and a double-decker bus.
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I love you England, so let's both ignore
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The Boston Tea Party, and that silly East Coast war.
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Oxford, London, and Guildford too,
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Rockin' your P.A.'s when I come to visit you.
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The Florida incident? Democracy at work,
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But we've still got love for your boy Edmund Burke.
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If it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German,
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But then we gave you Hanson and Pee Wee Herman.
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You gave us the Beatles, and you gave us the Who
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We gave you Kris Kross and Vanilla Ice too.
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You gave us "Chicken Run" and the Teletubies,
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We gave you McDonald's and got you chubby.
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You think we're all Trailer Trash obnoxious and noisy.
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But that's just Springer, Ricki Lake, and Boise.
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We're friendly and fake and proud of our nation,
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Overweight, wasting gas, hedonic civilization.
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We're sue-happy mad overworked compulsive winners,
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Strong facade but insecure, just think Seymour Skinner.
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We're obsessed with image, old age and fat,
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Technology, death, and our dogs and cats,
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The superbowl, shopping, S.U.V.s and money,
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Santa Claus, hygiene and the Easter Bunny.
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But bigger is better and we love our T.V.
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From L.A. to Boston, to Nashville, Tennessee.
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And yes 1/4 of Americans own guns
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In case you come back to punish your sons.
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But Mother Britain listen, there's still a tie that binds us,
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The U.S. isn't perfect, you don't have to remind us.
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(chorus)
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UK Visa Versa
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MC Lars Horris |