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TRACK

XTC

War Dance

Release date: 27th April 1992

From Nonsuch
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About This Track

"War Dance" is a track by XTC, from the album Nonsuch, released 27th April 1992. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

War Dance

There's an epidemic

Stirring passions in young hearts

Even the old campaigners

Have got it really bad

Well, we ain't seen nothing like it

Since coronation day

But when the street parties sound

I'm going underground

To keep the rabid hounds at bay

Oh, my, my, this war dance

A patriotic romance

No, we ain't seen nothing like it

Since coronation day

Oh, my, my, my

But when the ticker tape flies

And blood is on the rise

You know it's got you in its sway

You've got yourself a war dance

There's a cheap sensation

Keeping Fleet Street wide awake

Everyone wants a slice of

The jingoistic cake

And they're resurrecting Churchill

And bringing national service back

Fueling power and glory fever

Makes for a sicker Union Jack

Yeah, I'm talking about this war dance

A patriotic romance

And I know all you poets

Have seen it all before

About the stirring of those young hearts

Back in the first world war

Oh, my, my, this war dance

Patriotic romance

This war dance

Got a world war three dance

Oh, my, my, my, war dance

The stirring of those young hearts, young hearts

War dance, um, war dance

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Track details

From Nonsuch

1992
Album
Nonsuch
Nonsuch
XTC
Release year
1992
  1. —Dear Madam Barnum
  2. —Bungalow
  3. —Books are Burning
  4. —Crocodile
  5. —Holly Up on Poppy
  6. —Humble Daisy
  7. —My Bird Performs
  8. —Rook
  9. —Omnibus
  10. —The Disappointed
  11. —Then She Appeared
  12. —The Smartest Monkeys
  13. —The Ugly Underneath
  14. —That Wave
  15. —War Dance

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