Songfacts®:

• This song borrows the title and nothing else from the Flanders & Swann comedy classic. A group composition, it is an attack on political apathy from an anarchist perspective, and basically asks the question: Where will you be when there are black helicopters in the sky and your neighbors are being carted off to the concentration camps, or worse?
• The song is not only totally devoid of melody but is also both dated and parochial in a manner that makes comprehension difficult for the few who might otherwise enjoy it. While the reference to Auschwitz will be recognized universally, how many people will realize that "coshes at Southall" is an allusion to the death of Blair Peach after a violent demonstration in April 1979, an incident that inspired the Hazel O'Connor song "Black Man"? >>>

  Suggestion credit:
  Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2