Hi, I'm trying to compile a list of songs featuring Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher at Maggie Thatcher Forum

For Billy Bragg, I've got 'Thatcherites'. Can you add any more?
Cheers.

He's covered 'Stand Down Margaret' by The Beat.

Targets – Harvey Andrews

You’ll read it now they’ll tell you how,
The lady is a leader
With hats and curls and strings of pearls
They say the people need her.
She took the milk from my son John
And locked it in her larder
Then said the secret of success
Is ‘work a little harder’

Call us equal call us proud
Call yourself a liar
No matter what the people do
They set the target higher

My girl she nurses sick and old
The builders of the nation
And then they pay a pauper’s wage
And tell her it’s vocation
She’d love to ride the world around
To give the cups and prizes
But someone’s got to lead the blind
And see the cripple rises

Call us equal call us proud
Call yourself a liar
No matter what the people do
They set the target higher

We would have married long ago
And we’re still hoping one day
Two up, two down and a little lawn
And time to rest on Sunday
I wish the ones that kept us here
Could live like us and borrow
I’d place a pound for what it’s worth
That they’d be gone tomorrow.
We’d like a yacht, some rooms to spare
And horses in the stable
We might as well believe that we
Can buy meat for the table.

From the 1975 Transatlantic LP record ‘Fantasies From a Corner Seat’

Maggies Farm - The Specials

Maggie May (do what the hell she wants because she was demmocratically elected) Rod Stewart. Oh i made that bit up in brackets

Oh yes and the Beatles were the original to do Magie Mae


Oh dirty Maggie Mae (thatcher) they have taken her away
And she never walk down Lime Street(downing Street) any more
Oh the judge he guilty found her
For robbing a homeward bounder
That dirty no good robbin' Maggie Mae (thatcher)
To the port of Liverpool
They returned me to
Two pounds ten a week, that was my pay

i am a fan of rod stewart (my co-respondent was a look alike but don't go there ) but i never thought maggie may was about maggie thatcher She wasn't prime minister when it was released.

cross posts!


did rod stewart do the thatcher version ??

maggie may was around long before rod stewart

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/m/maggiemay.shtml

I Never See Maggie Alone (cos she needs 24 hour prottection)
Irving Aaronson and His Commanders
Phil Saxe, vocal

Just ignore my added bits in brackets if you want

let's start a war,said maggie one day - The exploited

Apparently Elton John, of all people, has written "Merry Christmas, Margaret Thatcher" for a musical version of Billy Elliott


chorus:
So merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher
May God's love be with you
We all sing together in one breath
Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher
We all celebrate today
'Cause it's one day closer to your death

Sleepy Maggie - Ashley MacIsaac

Oh BtP I know it was not about Maggie T, but I am having trouble thinking of songs about that old mad cow, so song titles with maggie in is the best I can do. The Exploited one counts.

Magies Farm, Bob Dylan.

now you are really pushing it judy!!

maggie t was barely out of navy knickers when bob wrote that!

(it was my song before the co-respondent business)

No I made up those lyrics maybe bill could sing it?

Here are 2 real protest songs from Maggie time

"Tramp the Dirt Down" (Elvis Costello), and "Mother Knows Best" (Richard Thompson).

On a role here

Mr Weller and

It's enough to make you stop believing when tears come fast and furious in a Town Called Malice".

Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards - Billy Bragg
Two Million Voices - Angelic Upstarts
Taking Tea With Pinochet - Christy Moore

shipbuilding, elvis costello anti fauklands war song

google takes the bloddy fun out of everything

An incomplete, but still massive list of songs mentioning Margaret Thatcher:


Bernstein (f.k.a. Dan Bern) - Children of the Cold War
Berurier Noir - Et Hop
Billy Bragg - Thatcherites
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Evil
Conflict - These Colours Don't Run
Conflict - Neither Is This
Conflict - To Whom It May Concern
Corries - Who'll Take The Ball from Maggie Thatcher?
Crass - Nineteen Eighty Bore
Crass - Sucks
David Diamond - Some Talk Of Ronald Reagan
Deborah Holland - Pinochet and Margaret Thatcher
Dolby Thomas - May The Cube Be With You
Doug Anthony All Stars - If You're Happy 2
Doug Anthony All Stars - The Sun
Martin Carthy - Company Policy
Elvis Costello - Tramp The Dirt Down
Exploited - Don't Pay The Poll Tax
Dick Gaughan - Ballad of '84 and others, indirectly
Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
Hefner - The Day That Thatcher Dies
Human League - The World Before Last
Ewan MacColl - Daddy, What Did You Do In The Strike?
Ewan MacColl - The Media and others, indirectly.
Manic Street Preachers - If White America Told The Truth For One Day Its World Would Fall Apart
Morrissey - Margaret On The Guillotine
Aimee Mann - You're With Stupid Now
Not Sensibles - I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher
{
Pink Floyd - The Post War Dream
Pink Floyd - Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home
And probably some more from The Final Cut, since it's about her war in the Falklands.
}
Renaud - Madame Thatcher
Roger Waters - Four Minutes
Roger Waters - The Story
Roy Harper - Winds Of Change
Sinead O'Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds
Space - No-One Understands
Spailpin - The Maggie Thatcher Song
Trust - Misere

There's also a band called Thatcher On Acid.





here is the link for the links

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Margaret%20Thatcher

Margaret on the Guillotine, a gem by Morrissey

"The" front cover...Iron Maiden' Sanctuary, featuring Eddie slaying Thatcher

sorry judy.. shall i delete my list for now

The late Kirsty MacColl's Free World starts with the uncompromisingly direct lyrics: "I thought of you when they closed down the school and the hospital too/ Did they think that you were better, they were wrong".

The Strawbs - 'You can't touch me I'm part of the Union'

The Strawbs - 'You can't touch me I'm part of the Union'

The Blow Monkeys She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter?

The Blow Monkeys She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter?

No No i was just doing a bit of warnering.

Carry on dear. Got to go now.

Funny that there are so many anti thatcher songs.

No Harvey Andrews though. As a lifelong fan I'm crushed.

Wargasm - Dead Kennedys (It features Maggie having an orgasm over the phone, priceless)

Why does it not surprise me you know about this?

You have never heard it?

It is great and pertinent now.

Starts with a voiceover of Maggie and Jello Biafra playing the Secretary for state,
set to guitars
goes in to a diatribe how war is good and the ciorporations think its about time for another one, all the while the Thatcher voice is breathing heavier and heavier until , well she Wargasms:)

Now you describe it I'm sure I've heard it on the radio, but never knew it was Maggie. I thought it was meant to be Ronnie

Funnily enough they (Hudson/Ford, don't blame Dave Cousins) wrote 'Part of the Union' as a pisstake of unions. More fool them that it got adopted as a 'protest song'.

Yep, thanks for reminding us Pete. I seem to remember they were overwintering in a factory somewhere and got into a spot of bother with the shop stewards which prompted them to write the song.

Despite Thatcher's ill health (or perhaps because of
it), and with her Daughter Carol winning I'm a
celebrity, plus two musicals based on Thatcher’s life
(see http://www.maggiethatcher.com for details, ) there is a
proliferation of games and applications featuring The
iron lady.

http://www.maggiethatcher.com/burning.html - The Lady's not
for Burning, after her quote 'The Lady's not for
Turning'

http://www.milksnatcher.com - 'Whack-a-miner' - An ironic
Parody of the Miners’ strike.

http://www.fandmpublications.co.uk/pages/maggiequote.htm
- Random Thatcher quote machine.

http://www.kirun.co.uk/games/funpack/mrstfun.php -
Slap her, give her a disease, shut her mouth etc.

http://www.urban75.com/Punch/thatcher.html - Punch her
in the face.

http://www.maggiethatcher.com/maggiesdead.swf - Milk
Snatcher game

http://www.anagramgenius.com/archive/maggie-thatcher.html
- Thatcher anagrams

http://www2.b3ta.com/jada/ - A surreal animation
featuring Thatcher, Bunnies and sheep

Thought you might be interested.
Thatcher games

The Blues Band did a cover of this in the early 80's. They changed the National Guard to the S..P..G. & it is definitely an anti-Thatcher song

But isn't Bruce Dickinson a Conservative?

Bridlington Ferryman - "Dancing in the Dark"

"Stuck in Maggie's England
They'll be carving you up alright

They say you've got to stay hungry
Well I'm just about starving tonight

Working for the grocers daughter
I just can't feel proud of myself

We came like lambs to the slaughter
Now we're just stock upon the shelf"

A few more songs -

Cleaners From Venus - Living With Victoria Grey
Madness - Blue Skinned Beast
Martin Newell - The Wicked Witch
Pele - Fat Black Heart
Redskins - Names Were Named

No he is an airline pilot for British charter airline called Astreus. He flew me on Holiday to Greece a couple of years back....

It's a bit off topic, but one of my favourite stories. A few years ago Iron Maiden did agig in (I think) Iceland. What is fact is that the group ran a trip to the gig from Britain with Dickinson at the controls of the aircraft ... how un rock'n'roll is that !!

Five Get Over Excited by The Housemartins included the following lyrics:

Feigning concern a Conservative pastime
Makes you feel doubtful right from the start
The expression she pulls is exactly like last time
Got to conclude she just hasn't a heart.

Anti-Maggie songs? Where to start? How about:

Crass - How does it feel to be the mother of a thousand dead? (flexi disc)
Lal Waterson - Hilda's Cabinet Band
Simply Red -Money's too tight to mention

BTW, does anyone else have a long standing commitment to get down the pub with friends to celebrate the night she pops her clogs?

Thatcher Fucked The Kids by Frank Turner - www.frank-turner.com

Whatever happened to childhood?
We're all scared of the kids in our neighboorhood;
They're not small, charming and harmless,
They're a violent bunch of bastard little shits.
And anyone who looks younger than me
Makes me check for my wallet, my phone and my keys,
And I'm tired of being tired out
Always being on the lookout for thieving gits.

We're all wondering how we ended up so scared;
We spent ten long years teaching our kids not to care
And that "there's no such thing as society" anyway,
And all the rich folks act surprised
When all sense of community dies,
But you just closed your eyes to the other side Of all the things that she did.
Thatcher fucked the kids.

And it seems a little bit rich to me,
The way the rich only ever talk of charity
In times like the seventies, the broken down economy
Meant even the upper tier was needing some help.
But as soon as things look brighter,
Yeah the grin gets wider and the grip gets tighter,
And for every teenage tracksuit mugger
There's a guy in a suit who wouldn't lift a finger for anybody else.

You've got a generation raised on the welfare state,
Enjoyed all its benefits and did just great,
But as soon as they were settled as the richest of the rich,
They kicked away the ladder, told the rest of us that life's a bitch.
And it's no surprise that all the fuck-ups
Didn't show up until the kids had grown up.
But when no one ever smiles or ever helps a stranger,
Is it any fucking wonder our society's in danger of collapse?

So all the kids are bastards,
But don't blame them, yeah, they learn by example.
Blame the folks who sold the future for the highest bid:
That's right, Thatcher fucked the kids.

Milk Snatcher game - play here

See you over in the relevent thread mate...

At Attila The Stockbroker's gig last night he sang a brand new song written day before yesterday called "Maggots One, Maggie Nil" If you've not seen Attila I'd recommend you try - he's touring right now with the fab David Rovics.

Gig guide at http://www.attilathestockbroker.com/

Jeremy

Attila has posted the lyrics on this Forum, btw - go here.
Is it done as a song and not a poem, then, just out of interest? It kind of read like a poem.