The Gravy Train Hits The Buffers

The Greek gravy train hits the buff€rs

Europe looks away as a nation suffers

‘Don’t ask us for help with your plight

You owe us big time, it’s ours by right

So clear off back to crumbling Greece

Toil day and night and never cease

Things for you will get no better

Until no longer are you a debtor’

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What next for Tsipras and Varoufakis

Heading for home to sink some rakis?

Short shrift they had from Europe’s elite

So it’s back to Athens to take some heat

What the Greek people have now is plain

Tsipras is Samaras with a different name

Some say he fooled his voters and lied

But kinder folk say his hands were tied.

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Each year the Greeks celebrate ‘Ochi’ day

When Mussolini learned there was no way

He could trample across Hellenic lands

With his fascist troops and cut-throat bands

His march on Greece brought bloody nose

He called friend Adolf to fight his foes

During four long years jackboots dictated

By most of Greece his men were hated

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Yet now left-wing Syriza bends its knee

To the new-found strength of Germany

The tragedy goes way beyond the shores

Of Greek democracy, ideals and laws

This new Europe in which we’re all thrust

Is the very antithesis of democracy’s trust

A principle established in ancient Greece

To serve the people and keep the peace

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The EU was set-up to stop Europe’s wars

Some say it now settles far earlier scores

To trample roughshod over a nation’s right

To protect its people and stand and fight

Should Syriza fly the white flag of defeat

And grovel once more at the tyrant’s feet?

Better a brand new F’Ochi-off day

Than let moneyed tyrants have their say

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The people didn’t vote to bear this cross

Of a dictating Europe that thinks it’s boss

The German euro will bring nothing but pain

So throw it out  – raise the drachma again!

Take courage Tsipras, put democracy first

Or end up a failure and be forever cursed

Greece has no choice the euro to leave

Gather your strength and give it the heave