Queen Elizabeth's baubles
Come from the bones of miners
Comes from the bones of workers
All over the world today
Queen Elizabeth's ermine
Comes as gifts from the vermin
Who tried so hard to extermin-
-ate the BRA
Queen Elizabeth's rubies
Red as the blood of babies
Black as the earth of graves
The tinto that Rio brings
And her diamonds so shiny
Come to her from the mining
Of uranium at Rössing
Down Namibia way
(Little musical interlude thingy)
Uncle was a Nazi sympathizer
Great uncle was the Kaiser
Why does that not surprise ya
Hey when's ANZAC Day
Dividend or public purse
Should be carried to her in a hearse
Couldn't really get much worse
Down Namibia way
She's probably a real
nice lady
But her investments are shady
Damned big trough for that gravy
In Windsor Palace today
Her crown's not gold
it's yellowcake
It wasn't paid for by no lamington bake
It was paid for by murder
Down Namibia way
(Another little musical interlude thingy )
Ask the Murris in Weipa
Ask the dead in Namibia
Ask the survivors in Bougainville
See who shouts hurray.
Queen Elizabeth's baubles
Come from the blood of the Turrbal
Conquest and capital
Who's eating the cake today.
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