Tom Robinson Band | Glad To Be Gay

[Heidi]

Run time: 02:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHG2LJGfEdw   Posted on YouTube: November 26, 2006 By YouTube Member: desertwalker Views on YouTube: 80890   Posted on DU: November 26, 2006 By DU Member: Heidi Views on DU: 1041

 
The first time I heard this song, it woke me up and made me want to do more to ensure equal rights for _all_ of us. It still does. My husband, DUer Call Me Wesley, spent this afternoon downloading a converter and editing a non-political song out of what was a TRB medley so that I could share this with ya'll, so props to him. Share this with your friends, my friends. We're either a Big Tent, or we're not. Gay rights are human rights.

Glad To Be Gay
by Tom Robinson, as performed by the Tom Robinson Band(1979)

The British Police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all
Lining the customers up by the wall
Picking out people and knocking them down
Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground
Searching their houses and calling them queer
I don't believe that sort of thing happens here

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy this way

Pictures of naked young women are fun
In Titbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun
There's no nudes in Gay News our last magazine
But they still find excuses to call it obscene
Read how disgusting we are in the press
The News of The World and the Sunday Express
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth
It's there in the paper, it must be the truth

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy this way

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

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy this way

So sit back and watch as they close all our clubs
Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs
Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21
So only your friends and your brothers get done
Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks
Put down the queens and tell anti-queer jokes
Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter
'The buggers are legal now -
What more are they after?'

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy this way

[bridgit]

1. Heidi kick...

&K&R :kick:

[Heidi]

2. Thank you, b.

I think TRB sings this one from the heart. This ol' world's got a lot of work to do.