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The Guildford Four (himself live)

from himself live by Andy White

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Home county night
October ’74
a couple quickly kissed
and headed for the door
no one around
heard the getaway car roar
cos the bar room soldiers
they were yelling out for more
the bomb blew at nine
and the soldiers they died
we’ve got to catch the guilty
no one can deny

We’d better round up somebody
call them The Guildford Four
doesn’t matter who
just as long as there are four

Three men off the Belfast boat
met up in London with a girl
on the DHSS line
they hung out in a squat
stoned most of the time
they took it all so easy
and watched the world go by
not society’s favourites
but that ain’t a crime

We’d better round up somebody
call them The Guildford Four
stick them inside so fast
their feet don’t even touch the floor

So they rounded up these
crack terrorist bums
and took them all away
in black ambulances
painted especially for the day
at the trial their alibis were
fatally misproved
the judge he cracked his knuckles
for the six o’clock news
with sheep written on your foreheads
you better watch out for the wolves

We’d better round up somebody
call them The Guildford Four
stick them inside and slam that
patriotic door

Seven weeks later
at the Balcombe Street siege
the police caught the criminals
who confessed to the deed
they said ‘you got the wrong guys’
but the appeal was rejected
the sentence said ‘natural life’
and the law cannot correct it

Better round up somebody
call them The Guildford Four
because we named them
they must be The Guildford Four

Victims of circumstance
call it what you will
when you next walk out the door
they’ll be lying there still
hear their families crying
they’ll be lying there still
justice better get up off its ass
well I hope that it will

We’d better round up somebody
call them The Guildford Four
one day they name you guilty
next thing you find out that you are

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from himself live, released January 31, 2021

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Andy White Belfast, UK

Belfast songwriter, has guitar wants to travel. Latest album - Good Luck I Hope You Make It

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