This Is England

Album: Cut the Crap (1985)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Bernard Rhodes, Joe Strummer
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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  • Vickie from Vancouver IslandPeter is right. This song is out of date by a mile.
  • Peter from Ottawa, OnThis song was written in 1983 and speaks of problems of the time in Thatcher era England. Issues such as inner city crime, unemployment, racism, the Falklands War, dying British industry, and the rise of a nationalist sub-culture in the white lower classes.
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