After A Subaltern's Love Song.
Joan Armatrading,
Joan Armatrading,
In your velvet jacket
With military braiding.
Singing your mind-numbing
A.O.R.
On your poncey, roundbacked
Ovation guitar.
Joan Armatrading,
Joan Armatrading,
Indifferent to the countries
We are invading.
While sectarian militias
In Basra riot,
You pointlessly sing about
Dropping the pilot.
Joan Armatrading,
Joan Armatrading,
In Baghdad and Kabul
The troops are parading.
While you wail your songs for
Middleclass simpletons
And cohabitate with
Valerie Singleton(s)
Joan Armatrading,
Joan Armatrading,
Geo-political conflict
Evading
You sing not a word of
Iraqi invasion -
You're not in love...
....but you're open to persuasion.
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I can't put my finger on it (as the actress said to the bishop) but it's not quite Betjeman, is it?
ReplyDeleteMost unfair on the Joanster
ReplyDeleteShe shows some emotion
Just get off her back
She's the sweetest devotion.