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For all those people worrying about last minute Christmas shopping or other festive arrangements I present this WWII poster...

This poster has become well known but, fortunately, was never actually used during the war. Apparently 2.5 million were printed to be displayed if Germany invaded the British Isles. Most were pulped after the war and only a few originals remain. One was discovered in a box of second hand books by Barter Books of Alnwick, Northumberland in 2000. They sell reproductions and many souvenirs based upon it.

Have a close look at this screengrab from The Daily Telegraph's website...

Yes, it claims it was published in 1931...

SONG  LYRIC:

HAPPY  DAYS

Tom  Brown's  weren't  such  happy  days

doing the  fagging  in so  many  ways

Kids can  be  so  cruel

we  learn  this  lesson from life's  school

 

That  was  the  teachers  and  prefects  man

Happy  days  were  a sham

Happy  days  were  a  sham

 

Then  there  was  the  student  riots

with  the  fading  Sixties'  highlights

Folk  can  be  so  cruel

we  learn  this lesson from  life's  school

 

That  was  the  police  and  soldiers  man

Happy  days  were  a  sham

Happy  days  were  a  sham

 

To  the  politically  correct

we  are  now  in  debt

We  are  bankrupt  man

Happy  days  are  a  sham

 

Tom  Brown's  etc

 

That  was  the  teachers  etc

SONG  LYRIC:

RAMBLIN'  ALONG

There's  rambling and  brambling

and  motorbike  scrambling

out  here  on  the  moor

while  you've  got  the  city

merciless  and  gritty

outside  your  front  door

 

We  live  in  a  new  age

of  cities  and  road  rage

and  we're  living it  so  fast

we're  gonna  slow  down  at  last

 

There  are  people  in their  hordes

lots  of  lorries  and  billboards

and  no  sign  of  a  tree

I'm  strolling along  real  fine

and  having a  grand  old  time

Bet  you  wish  you  came  with  me

 

We  live  etc

 

There's  rambling  etc

 

We  live  etc

 

Rambling  along

singing  my  song

 

Rambling  along

singing  my  song

SONG  LYRIC:

MASQUERADE

We've  seen  you  in the  shade

when  you're  not  out  in  masquerade

We  know  you as  rough  trade

when  you're  not  out  on  fine  parade

 

Where'd  you  get  the  money  you  poser?

In  a  back street  from some  brown-noser

who  spying  you  there  in  the  dark

paid  you  to give  his  plug  a  spark

 

We've  seen  etc

 

Oh  aren't  you  so  very  grand

giving a  wave  like  a  royal hand

You're  a  queen  of sorts  I  guess

even  if  you're  not  seen  in  a  dress

 

We've  seen  etc

 

Where'd  you?  etc

 

We've  seen  etc 

SONG  LYRIC:

NO  SECOND  CHANCE

It's  not  that  I'm  merciless

I  think  you'd  agree

But  people  steal  and  lie

adding insult  to injury

Every  second  chance  I  give

they  do  the  dirty  on  me

 

No  second  chance

Over  is  the  merry  dance

No  second  chance

Over is  this  fool's  romance

 

I'm  a  romantic  fool

Oh yes  it  is  so  true

Yet  I  learnt  a  lesson

from  other  types  of  you

Now  I  know  what  they  meant

when they  said  you're  a  good  screw

 

No  etc

 

It's  not  etc

 

No  etc

SONG  LYRIC:

CHEERS  BUD

I'm  no  golf  fanatic

but  Alice  Cooper's  off  his  Buds

He's  taken to  religion

and  thinks  he's  Tiger  Woods

 

Now  that is  kinda  freaky

More  scary  than  his  show

Take  up  the  game  of  golf

and  that's  the  way  you  go

 

I'm  no  golf  fanatic

I'd  rather  go  shoot  pool

Drink  Alice's  Budweizers

Miss  the  pots  like  a  fool

 

Now  etc

 

Maybe  I'm  just  joking

Maybe  I'm  playing  the  clown

Gone  and  missed  the  green  ball

and  put  the  black ball  down

 

Now  etc

 

I'm  no  etc

 

Now  etc

SONG  LYRIC:

TAKE  NO  PRISONERS

Take  no  prisoners

if  you  want  to  survive

They  only  bog  you  down

while  they're  still  alive

 

In  the  jungles

and  in  the  swamplands

of  this  heated  war

look  after  number  one

is  the  message  through  the  door

 

Take  no prisoners

It's  there in  black and  white

The  world  is  all  wrong

but  two  sides  think  they're  right

 

In  the  jungles  etc

 

Be  it  soldiers

or  men  back  home

take  no  prisoners

in  the  human  zone

 

Repeat 1st  verse

 

In  the  jungles  etc

SONG  LYRICS:

DIARY  OF  A  NOBODY

They found  the  diary

of  a  nobody

up  in the  attic-room

He's  a  nobody

yeah  he's  a  nobody

because  he  has  gone

 

He  was  truly  somebody

He  was  really  a  someone

Such  thoughts  though  he  couldn't  spell

An  angel  of  sorts  has  he  become?

 

They  found  etc

 

He  was  truly  somebody

up in  that  attic-room

Did he  break  on  out  a  buttefly

from that  low-ceilinged  cocoon?

 

They  found  etc

 

Repeat  1st  verse

 

They  found  etc

 

THE  NEW  BARDOT

Here  she  is

the  new  Bardot

She  loves  her  animals

She  loves  them so

 

They  like  a  little  French

those  boys  do

and  you're  a  Bardot

brand  spanking  new

Looks  like  that

are  rare  to  view

 

Here  etc

 

You  drive  them  wild

It  turns  you  on

You're  in  the  spotlight

of  the  tiger  and  the  tom

You  make  the  most

It won't  last  long

 

Here  etc  (twice)

 

They  like  etc

 

Here  etc  (twice)

 

 

SONG  LYRIC:

RATTLER

A  war of  tongues

and  of  poisonous  spit

Their  fangs  were  bared

The  two  of  them  bit

 

Don't  raise  him  up  he'll  rattle

near-empty  from  the  battle

Hers  a  python's  kiss

His  a rattle-snake's  hiss

 

He's  always  the  loser

He  never wins  the  day

Pythona,  oh  Pythona

she  gets  the  last  say

 

Don't  etc

 

A  war  etc

 

Don't  etc