Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 15:17:17 GMT
From: uk-motss-server@pyra.co.uk

Glad To Be Gay '87

The lyrics contained in this file are for the 1987 version of
Glad To Be Gay, written by Tom Robinson and found on the album
"Tom Robinson - The Collection 1977 - '87"


The British police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
'Bout pretty policemen in leather and jeans
Showing their leg through a split in the seams
Leering at people, leading them on
The running them in when they start to respond
The Press all ignore it, they don't want to see
Except when the case is a Tory MP

Chorus:	Sing if you're glad to be gay
	Sing if you're happy that way
	Hey!
	Sing if you're glad to be gay
	Sing if you're happy that way

The pictures of naked young women are best
In the News of the Screws and the popular press
They plaster their pages with bingo and tits
Then add all the scandal and slander that fits
The women at Greenham they smeared and despised
They crucify Elton with smearing and lies
If it's paedophile teachers and lesbian nuns
If it's filthy and fiction
It's all there in The Sun

[chorus]

And now there's a cancer to blame on the gays
It's brutal and fatal and slowly invades
The moral majority like it a lot
'Cos it's the wages of sin and thejudgement of God
The medics are baffled and caught on the run
They say it's a nightmare that's barely begun
And government spending is barely a joke
'Cos saving gay lives doesn't win any votes

so try and 
[chorus]

[instrumental break]

And sit back and watch as they seize all our books
And treat us like lepers and sinners and crooks
Just hope you don't get caught up in the raids
Or pick up a pig or a partner with AIDS
Lie to your workmates, and lie to your folks
Put down the clones and tell lesbian joke
Forget the agression from everywhere else
When we still do a wonderful job opressing ourselves

so try and
[chorus]

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