Gil Scott Heron on Football
Hey, Don't wanna be involved in this one, huh?
This here is going to be a Blues number.
But first I want to do a little background on the Blues
And say what it is.
Like, there are six cardinal colours
And colours have always come to signify more than that particular shade.
Like: "red-neck" or "Sevco got the Blues".
That's where you apply something to a colour , to express what you're trying to say.
So, there are 6 cardinal colours: yellow, red, orange, green, blue and purple.
And there are three thousand shades.
And if you take this 3,000 and divide it by 6, you come up with 500.
Meaning there are at least 500 shades of the Blues.
For example, there is...
The "I ain't got me no money, Blues".
There is the "I ain't got me no football 'cos it's fixed, Blues".
There is the "I ain't got me no money and football is fixed",
Which is the double Blues.
And for years it was thought that Black people was the only ones who could get the Blues.
So the Blues hadn't come into no international type of fame.
(...Had a corner on the market).
But lately we had...
Sir Bradley Wiggins and the TUEsday Doping Blues
Fat Sam Allardyce and the Big Bung Blues
And we going to dedicate this next poem here to Prince Gideon.
The Ex-Second in Command in terms of this Country.
(He got the Blues).
And the poem is called "EPL G-A-T-E Blues".
And if EPL is still Premier League
And G-A-T-E is still gate
What we getting ready to deal on is the
"Premier League-Gate Blues"...
(Rated X)!
Let me see if I can dial this number...
Click! Whirr ... Click!
"I'm sorry, the government you have elected is inoperative...
Click! Inoperative!"
Just how blind will football be?
The nation is on the edge of its seat
Defeat on the horizon. Very surprising
That we all could see the plot
And claimed that we could not.
(Alright).
Just how blind, football?
Just as FIFA exploded in the vice
Snap, crackle and pop
(Uh Oh!)
Could not stop people determined to be free
Just how blind will football be?
(Yo! Andrew Jennings! Yes Sir!)
The shock of a Daily Telegraph leak
Sent City of London lawyers scurrying down St George
And when the roll was called it was:
Massimo Cellino and EPL Bung Managers 8
'Knapp, Black and Haisselbaink
Ask them what we're watching here and they never mention the economics of the ball.
Class Warfare!
Above all destroy the game!
If we can't break the SE Asian will
Bomb the dykes and starve the man!
Premier League football!
The international Jekyll and Hyde
The league of a thousand disguises
Sneaks up on you but rarely surprises
(Yeah!)
Plundering the Asian marketplace
In the name of you know who!
Afraid of shoeless, undernourished refugees
While we sign astronomical television deals for football rights.
The Nuclear Option.
Just how blind, Scudamore?
But tell me, who was around when Fat Sam died?
And what was the cause of Dr Mark Bonar's untimely demise?
And what really happened with Mr Allardyce?
The king is proud of Martin Glenn
While the Premier League faith is drowning
Beneath that cesspool - Premier League-Gate.
How long will the citizens sit and wait?
It's looking like FIFA in 2008
Did they move to stop Blatter before it was too late?
(No...)
How long, football, before the consequences of
Delaying the introduction of video technology
Allowing the press to be intimidated
Watching the price of football soar
And hearing complaints 'cause the rich want more?
(Alright!)
It seems MacBeth and not his lady went mad.
We've let them eliminate the whole premise of the game
Integrity's the only thing we can't inflate
While the poor go on without a new minimum wage
What really happened to Big Fat Sam?
The king is proud of Martin Glenn
And there are those that say that football's drowning
Beneath that cesspool - EPL-Gate.
(Yeah!)
How much more evidence do the citizens need
That the game has been sabotaged by trickery and greed?
And, if this is so, and who we got didn't win
Let's do the whole goddamn season over again
(Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
The obvious key to the whole charade
Would be to run down all the games they played:
Remember Sepp Blatter and Platini, the Hillsborough massacre,
WADA knowing nothing about Team Sky and Olympians until Fancy Bears at this time
In the past. As I recollect, London England
The nomination of Supreme Court Jesters to head off the tapes
Greg Dyke's Executive Interference
In the Image of John Wayne.
What a state! Look at the state! Southern Myopia!
Hundreds of unauthorised matchfixing events.
The chaining and gagging of all that is real -
Somebody tell these Premier League governors to be for real!
We recall all these events just to prove
(Yeah!)
The matchfixers in the Premier League-Gate wasn't no news!
The thing that seems to justify all of our fears
Is that all of this went down in the last half year.
But tell me, what really happened with Allardyce's demise?
While King Richard is proud of Martin Glenn
And the Premier League faith is drowning
Beneath that cesspool - Premier League-Gate.
We leave ScudamoreWorld to ponder the image
Of justice from our new wave of leaders
Martin Glenn, the Leicester City graduate
Also from Leicester, Greg Clarke, whose ignorance is surpassed only by those who voted for him
(Ha Ha Ha Ha!)
King Power, the imperial Napoleonic ruler of Thailand
Who took over from Thaksin Shinawatra and
Continues to implement the same tactics.
Neil Doncaster, Graham Taylor,
Shaun Harvey, Stewart Regan.
An almost endless list that won't be missed when at last
Football is purged!
(Yeah! Alright).
And the silent Premier League with the Scudamore Clan
Still in command.
But see the sauerkraut Mafia men
Deserting the sinking Premier League ship and
Their main mindless, meglomaniac Ab
TV Subscriptions are down. Attendances are down. No tap on my telephone.
TV Subscriptions are down. Attendances are down. No tap on my telephone.
Clattenburg, Marriner, Moss and Dean
It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean.
Clattenburg, Marriner, Moss and Dean
It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean.
And what are we left with now?
Bumper stickers that say Free The EPL-Gate 500.
Spy movies of the same name with a cast of thousands.
And that ominous phrase: that if the Daily Telegraph know and the City of London police know
(Check it out!)
But the FA don't know enough to stay out of jail.
What really happened with Sam Allardyce?
The king is proud of Martin Glenn
And there are those who swear they've seen Prince Gideon
(Who? Who?)
Prince Gideon
(Who?)
Prince Gideon
(Who?)
Prince Gideon
(Who?)
Prince Gideon
(Who?)
Prince Gideon
Prince Gideon
Prince Gideon
Prince Gideon -
(Yeah!)
Beneath that cesspool EPL-Gate.
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Hey, Don't wanna be involved in this one, huh?
This here is going to be a Blues number.
But first I want to do a little background on the Blues
And say what it is.
Like, there are six cardinal colours
And colours have always come to signify more than that particular shade.
Like: "red-neck" or "Sevco got the Blues".
That's where you apply something to a colour , to express what you're trying to say.
So, there are 6 cardinal colours: yellow, red, orange, green, blue and purple.
And there are three thousand shades.
And if you take this 3,000 and divide it by 6, you come up with 500.
Meaning there are at least 500 shades of the Blues.
For example, there is...
The "I ain't got me no money, Blues".
There is the "I ain't got me no football 'cos it's fixed, Blues".
There is the "I ain't got me no money and football is fixed",
Which is the double Blues.
And for years it was thought that Black people was the only ones who could get the Blues.
So the Blues hadn't come into no international type of fame.
(...Had a corner on the market).
But lately we had...
Sir Bradley Wiggins and the TUEsday Doping Blues
Fat Sam Allardyce and the Big Bung Blues
And we going to dedicate this next poem here to Prince Gideon.
The Ex-Second in Command in terms of this Country.
(He got the Blues).
And the poem is called "EPL G-A-T-E Blues".
And if EPL is still Premier League
And G-A-T-E is still gate
What we getting ready to deal on is the
"Premier League-Gate Blues"...
(Rated X)!
Let me see if I can dial this number...
Click! Whirr ... Click!
"I'm sorry, the government you have elected is inoperative...
Click! Inoperative!"
Just how blind will football be?
The nation is on the edge of its seat
Defeat on the horizon. Very surprising
That we all could see the plot
And claimed that we could not.
(Alright).
Just how blind, football?
Just as FIFA exploded in the vice
Snap, crackle and pop
(Uh Oh!)
Could not stop people determined to be free
Just how blind will football be?
(Yo! Andrew Jennings! Yes Sir!)
The shock of a Daily Telegraph leak
Sent City of London lawyers scurrying down St George
And when the roll was called it was:
Massimo Cellino and EPL Bung Managers 8
'Knapp, Black and Haisselbaink
Ask them what we're watching here and they never mention the economics of the ball.
Class Warfare!
Above all destroy the game!
If we can't break the SE Asian will
Bomb the dykes and starve the man!
Premier League football!
The international Jekyll and Hyde
The league of a thousand disguises
Sneaks up on you but rarely surprises
(Yeah!)
Plundering the Asian marketplace
In the name of you know who!
Afraid of shoeless, undernourished refugees
While we sign astronomical television deals for football rights.
The Nuclear Option.
Just how blind, Scudamore?
But tell me, who was around when Fat Sam died?
And what was the cause of Dr Mark Bonar's untimely demise?
And what really happened with Mr Allardyce?
The king is proud of Martin Glenn
While the Premier League faith is drowning
Beneath that cesspool - Premier League-Gate.
How long will the citizens sit and wait?
It's looking like FIFA in 2008
Did they move to stop Blatter before it was too late?
(No...)
How long, football, before the consequences of
Delaying the introduction of video technology
Allowing the press to be intimidated
Watching the price of football soar
And hearing complaints 'cause the rich want more?
(Alright!)
It seems MacBeth and not his lady went mad.
We've let them eliminate the whole premise of the game
Integrity's the only thing we can't inflate
While the poor go on without a new minimum wage
What really happened to Big Fat Sam?
The king is proud of Martin Glenn
And there are those that say that football's drowning
Beneath that cesspool - EPL-Gate.
(Yeah!)
How much more evidence do the citizens need
That the game has been sabotaged by trickery and greed?
And, if this is so, and who we got didn't win
Let's do the whole goddamn season over again
(Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)
The obvious key to the whole charade
Would be to run down all the games they played:
Remember Sepp Blatter and Platini, the Hillsborough massacre,
WADA knowing nothing about Team Sky and Olympians until Fancy Bears at this time
In the past. As I recollect, London England
The nomination of Supreme Court Jesters to head off the tapes
Greg Dyke's Executive Interference
In the Image of John Wayne.
What a state! Look at the state! Southern Myopia!
Hundreds of unauthorised matchfixing events.
The chaining and gagging of all that is real -
Somebody tell these Premier League governors to be for real!
We recall all these events just to prove
(Yeah!)
The matchfixers in the Premier League-Gate wasn't no news!
The thing that seems to justify all of our fears
Is that all of this went down in the last half year.
But tell me, what really happened with Allardyce's demise?
While King Richard is proud of Martin Glenn
And the Premier League faith is drowning
Beneath that cesspool - Premier League-Gate.
We leave ScudamoreWorld to ponder the image
Of justice from our new wave of leaders
Martin Glenn, the Leicester City graduate
Also from Leicester, Greg Clarke, whose ignorance is surpassed only by those who voted for him
(Ha Ha Ha Ha!)
King Power, the imperial Napoleonic ruler of Thailand
Who took over from Thaksin Shinawatra and
Continues to implement the same tactics.
Neil Doncaster, Graham Taylor,
Shaun Harvey, Stewart Regan.
An almost endless list that won't be missed when at last
Football is purged!
(Yeah! Alright).
And the silent Premier League with the Scudamore Clan
Still in command.
But see the sauerkraut Mafia men
Deserting the sinking Premier League ship and
Their main mindless, meglomaniac Ab
TV Subscriptions are down. Attendances are down. No tap on my telephone.
TV Subscriptions are down. Attendances are down. No tap on my telephone.
Clattenburg, Marriner, Moss and Dean
It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean.
Clattenburg, Marriner, Moss and Dean
It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean.
And what are we left with now?
Bumper stickers that say Free The EPL-Gate 500.
Spy movies of the same name with a cast of thousands.
And that ominous phrase: that if the Daily Telegraph know and the City of London police know
(Check it out!)
But the FA don't know enough to stay out of jail.
What really happened with Sam Allardyce?
The king is proud of Martin Glenn
And there are those who swear they've seen Prince Gideon
(Who? Who?)
Prince Gideon
(Who?)
Prince Gideon
(Who?)
Prince Gideon
(Who?)
Prince Gideon
(Who?)
Prince Gideon
Prince Gideon
Prince Gideon
Prince Gideon -
(Yeah!)
Beneath that cesspool EPL-Gate.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gilscottheron/h2ogateblues.html
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Cannot promise replies.
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