Oi Polloi

Arrested - beaten black and blue Confession - beaten out of you You didn't do it - but you still get the cell In prison - institiutionalised hell 23 houres - banged up day and night Beatings - given out left and right By the screws who want to put you...

Pastry mixed veg Red bean Courgettes Walnuts Cashews Tomatoes Mushrooms!! Let's make a tasty anarcho-pie - Ace vegan food for you and I Let's make a tasty anarcho-pie - Ace vegan food for you and I Take eight ounces of pastry and, leaving a little...

Most people's experience with the police isn't some sort of rose-faced "Dixon of Dock Green" type who goes around cuffing someone on the shoulder for nicking a rosy apple or something right. Their experience of the cops is: They ride around in riot vans all da...

Oi! Nineteen nineties and the nazis are back Family burnt out in an arson attack Children lying in hospital dying of their burns It's about time that everyone learns (to) BASH - BASH THE FASH! Germany in the thirties was the same A life or death stru...

United we stand, divided we fall skins and punks rally to the call now's the time to change this land and it's your duty to lend a hand We gotta boot down, boot down, boot down the door Smash their oppression - smash their law![x2] Those in the power...

Another adolescent suicide - 'cos you don't look the part Killed by the glossy magazines that brainwashed you from the start Photos of models in expensive clothes Designer haircuts and arrogant pose Rammed down our throats time after time Their fashion is...

As a black night fast approaches dawn We gather in mist by the gnomon As the stones are struck by the suns first rays We feel the Earthpower in our veins The awesome power that fills the stone We feel it in our minds and bones And as we dance around the...

I want to have a drink I want to have a laugh I don't want no dodgy politics 'cos I ain't that daft Don't need some nutter telling me what to do I can think for myself and so can you Commies and nazis they're all the same They only want to use you for the...

Hey there Mr. Kipling Exceedingly good cakes? You're a dealer in death Your cost image is a fake MR. KIPLING - DEATH DEALER! MR. KIPLING - LIFE STEALER! We ask you this question How many creatures must die To provide the animal fat For your apple...

See the sales rep peddle lies Watch as the mother's baby dies Tricked by whitecoats, so misleading Into unhealthy bottle feeding Hear the diseased infants' cries watch the mothers' tearful eyes Join the boycott, give it clout Do I have to spell it out?...

Eighteen years old, screaming in a ditch Amputated legs in a war fought for the rich But the bosses shed no tears as you bled and cried 'Cos your butchery battle-proved the weapons they had sold to the other side TIME TO STOP THE WAR B.P. AIN'T WORTH DY...

Put to death in flames and smoke You were used as a scapegoat Troubles blamed upon the witch When they should've really burned the rich No! Bon't burn the witch Burn, burn the rich! Get down onn your knees in their church Your refused and worcshipped the ear...

Sticks and standing stones Arrests and broken bones Peoples' homes destroyed Vicious thugs employed By rulers alienated From an earth they've devastated Surround our temple with barbed wire But in our hearts there burns a fire (to) Free the Henge Free...

In 1979 the Labour government was brought down over its failure to grant even limited autonomy to Scotland as had been promised in its manifesto. Disastrously, the following saw Margaret Thatcher installed as Prime Minister and ushered in the nightmare scenari...

Slavishly conform To the system's norms And if you know what's best Don't stand out from the rest Sheeplike mentality Oppressing you and me Braindead fools Taunted you at school But gingerheads are good in bed And carrot tops know how to rock Confo...

Governments and multinationals Corrupt and twisted women and men Are going to bring this planet To a premature end With their selfishness and greed They destroy anything of worth Are you just going to sit and watch Their rape of mother earth? They just...

Cops kill youth at the station Riot breaks out at the demonstration You get nicked for doing a pig Senile rich scumbag in a judges wig Says GUILTY - Of fighting back GUILTY - Of a vicious attack GUILTY - Of standing your ground GUILTY - you're going...

Nicaragua once suffered under a fascist regime, but the people brought it down 'cos they had a dream A dream that they could live in freedom from fear But then the U.S.-Government had to interfere! Americans out, Americans out! Hear the people scream, h...

You have no soul you have no heart You'd chase an animal to see it torn apart Blood junky you're full of shit You want a kicking? you'll fuckin' get it Sick perverts dressed in red We won't rest until your "sport" is dead Sick bastards dressed in red...

For once in my life I've got something to say I wanna say it now for now is today A love has been given so why not enjoy So let's all grab and let's all enjoy If the kids are united then we'll never be divided If the kids are united then we'll never be divide...

Left school at sixteen to become a banker Well he can just fuck off - fuckin tory wanker JOHN MAJOR - FUCK YOU Thinks he's fuckin hard but he'd be out of luck If he came to one of our gigs he'd get kicked to fuck JOHN MAJOR - FUCK YOU "Classless...

Oi! A child is burnt to death By nazis on the street A man is stabbed and scarred for life Yet you say they've a right to put their views What is this liberal rubbish? Are you some kind of mug? Don't talk to me of "free speech" For murdering fascist t...

Spreading lies and muck behind our backs A vicious cowardly attack A spiteful scheming slimeball with a huge ego Your pathetic negative actions make me want to throw I can't belive the depths to which you've sunk You've got some nerve to call yourself a p...

Danke fur deinen brief Danke fur die pakete Danke fur die schokolade Wir sollten zu weihnachten zu hause sein AAAAAAAHHH! Meine augen! Ich kann nicht atmen ich kann nicht sehen Meine haut - Sie Brennt Meine Augen - Sie Brennen Giftgas anschlag ohne...

Went to a gig for a good night out But of course it had to be ruined by some moronic louts We were all looking forward to a good night When for some stupid reason they started to fight Picked on some folk and knocked them to the floor Ten kicking one - oh...

Glued to the screen you sit and vegetate A model citizen in a police state Pumped so full of rubbish that you don't see You'r getting a cathode ray lobotomy Bread and circuses, Government lies Turn off the TV before your eyes Bread and circuses, Govern...

Standing outsides the primary school gates With their leaflets stirring up race hate Creeping round in the dead of night Setting innocent people's houses alight They stab and kill in radical attacks Just how much more before ypu fight back? Find them - G...

Radioactive discharge spews forth from wastepipe It poisons land and sea It poisons you and me NO FILTHY NUCLEAR POWER This filthy stinking waste They try to tell us it's safe Try telling that to those dying slowly of leukaemia And while officials...

Swarming over the fence in droves We're gonna stop this road Handcuffed to the machinery In defence of beautiful greenery People come from far and near To stop the road right here Earthmovers trashed in the dead of night It's time to stand up and fight...

Nuclear energy is a con It's just a cover for making their bombs And it sends people to an early grave So we want the power of the wind and the waves [Chorus:] Harness the wind Harness the waves We don't need this filthy nuclear waste Solar power - y...

You resurrect the corpse of war You take the food from the poor You kill this planet, mine by birth Your death machines stalk the earth You create famine for starving millions Your air attacks upon civilians Your state police to make us bleed You are...

They shot innocent 5 year old kid murdered him in his bed They beat folk with their truncheons in the cells till they're dead Humiliate and strip search you as a matter of routine Beat you up behind closed doors and laugh at your screams Were taking...

Oi! Oi! Let's go! We're here to play Oi! Oi! music for you And in return here's what we want you to do Come to our gigs - dance but don't fight Punx 'n' skins unite! unite! UNITE AND WIN - PUNX 'N' SKINS Do you like our country being run this way? Doyou like...

You come to the gig And you think you're really big but to me you just look small As you cover the back of the ball Lacking even the guts to get up the front and dance It's enough to make me cry Are you punx or mice? [Chorus:] Are you punx or mice?...

If you go down in the gardens today you're in for a big surprise If you go down in the gardens today you won't believe your eyes 'Cos every punk 'n' skin that ever there was Is there today because because Today's the day the punx 'n' skins have their picni...

I don't want to live in a world of hate oppression and restriction control by the state and i don't want to live in a world of war exploitations and divisions between rich and poor i just want to live life just want to be free is it to much to ask for a w...

"Every person must submit to the authorities for the existing authorities are instituted by God, consequently anyone who rebels is resisting a divine institution and those who so resist have themselves to thank for the punishment they will receive - for Govern...

Resist the atomic menaceBY Oi PoLLOi In March 1984 an old age pensioner by the name of Hilda Murrell was stabbed to death when she surprised an Intruder at her home In Shrewsbury. The Police treated the Incident as If It was just an ordinary burglary tha...

Dealers selling smack that will ruin your brain And bring you nothing but misery and pain Teenage adicts dying - that's hardly very funny But the dealers are laughing as they pocket the money BRING THEM DOWN - RUN THEM OUT OF TOWN They'll screw up you...

I remember when you said you cared And that you would never be ensnared By the mortgage and the 9 to 5 Dumb existence in the human hive So was that really all just a pose? Your beliefs no deeper than your clothes? Come on then - prove me wrong I should'...

He doesn't know her name She doesn't know his name He ain't got a wife She don't fuckin' have much of a life Sex with strangers She's gonna take him home They ain't gonne be alone She's got a son The sun shines out of his fuckin' bum Sex with st...

Simon Weston is on fire Can you hear his screams get higher? Did he really want to burn So Thatcher's war machine could turn? Simon Weston Simon Weston Simon Weston AAAAAAARRGGH! In Malvinas out of luck Simon says "my face is fucked" Simon Weston...

Tore the people from the land Torched their houses with bloodied hands Thousands starved or died at sea A sickening toll of human misery Broke the old clan system where land was there for all And once the people had their backs against the wall The conni...

They've poisoned and clear-felled and strip-mined this earth Made a cess pit of the paradise that was ours by birth They've raped and they've burned and they've plundered our world Our banner of resistance will now be unfurled We're nailing our colours rig...

Oi! Oi! Dug my fuckin' shit-pit I had to spend a penny I had to blag some diesel For the fuckin' genny Now we're skinning up This gear is fuckin' beezer Have you got a quid for some diesel, geezer? T.H.C. Scored some good grass And it was fucki...

Are we to go back to the days of victoria will we so easily surrender the gains we made so far back to an age of repression hypocrassy and lies forced into the back streets as another freedom dies No! no return to the back streets Christian fundamentalist...

So here we are - a thin green line Into the nineties, runnig out of time Extinction of our planet has already begun but don't let them tell you nothing can be done Some of us are angry & fighting back Non-violent direct action is a means of attack No,...

They fought in the war to keep the people free From the nazi scum who would invade our country Fighting the fascist filth they risked their lives But now they're old and weak they're just left to die IT AIN'T RIGHT - NO WAY! IT AIN'T RIGHT - THEY'VE BEE...

Oi! Oi! Oi! Unite and win Stick together - Punx 'N' Skins! Oi! Oi! Oi! Unite Unite! Young and old, black and white Oi! Oi! Oi! Unit eand win Stick together through thick and thin Oi! Oi! Oi! Unite Unite! Young and old, black and white  

Safety rules - corners cut Just to keep the profits up Money saved - profits rise But consequence is someone dies Victim of a chemical spillage Safety regulations breached Critical concentrations reached Money is saved but a live is lost Loved ones...

Kurds in iraq death gas attack chocking death pain from saddam hussein Victims of a gas attack Choke in a ditch die for the rich mustard gassed squaddie blistered dead body Victims of a gas attack No i wont fight might isnt right fight your own wars the...

Opened the paper what did I see? A load of complete rubbish staring out at me "Oi man killed" so the headline read Said one of Oi Polloi had wound up dead Well we all knew that that wasn't true 'Cos we're still here playing Oi! Oi! music for you No one of us h...

Once this magnificent animal swam freely in the seas But now held captive for human greed. A miserable "life" behind bars and concrete walls No companion killer whales to hear its calls. Yes. I'm sickened by what I've seen And the mass Faroe Islands pilot...

I'm lost for words when I think of the depths to which we sink Sometimes there just seem to be no depths to which our species will not sink. Surely, in this day and age, we should be seeking to establish meaningful and constructive relationships with other hi...

When two men kiss Walk hand in hand The fear of what You don't understand Explodes into violence Screams break the silence "The guy was a poof" "The guy was queer" Dehumanised And living in fear No, you're not thick And you say they're sick But the...

Willie was a fighter, Willie was no fool Willie fought to end Westminster rule Rule by scum who thought it would be best To use the Highlands for atomic bomb test Willie McRae Willie McRae Willie McRae Plans to use Scotland as a nuclear dump site W...

I asked them why the wilderness had to die Their replay to me showed the reason was naked greed. Mass action could stop them - But you've got to start it World Park status for the Antarctica. They rape and plunder whatever they find - Sea polluted and...

You cough - they profit Well i thought it was about mutual respect But your filthy smoke chokes me so am i incorrect? With your pathetic sick habit you pollute my air Have you no respect for others? No, you just don't seem to care I don't like your selfi...

Capitalist wanker - neat idea Increase profits, sell more beer Company announce music sponsorship Just a cheap ad for their fuckin' shit Tennents Live - parasites Tennents Live - Fuck you You can't buy our energy, you can't buy our anger We're not t...