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Tom Robinson Band – Glad To Be Gay lyrics
The British Police are the best in the world
I don't believe one of these stories I've heard
'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all
Lining the customers up by the wall
Picking out people and knocking them down
Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground
Searching their houses and calling them queer
I don't believe that sort of thing happens here

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

Pictures of naked young women are fun
In Titbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun
There's no nudes in Gay News our one magazine
But they still find excuses to call it obscene
Read how disgusting we are in the press
Telegraph, People and Sunday Express
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth
It's there in the paper, it must be the truth

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

Don't try to kid us that if you're discreet
You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street
You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks
To get beaten unconscious and left in the dark
I had a friend who was gentle and short
He was lonely one evening and went for a walk
Queer-bashers caught him and kicked in his teeth
He was only hospitalised for a week

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way

So sit back and watch as they close all our clubs
Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs
Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21
So only your friends and your brothers get done
Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks
Put down the queens and tell anti-queer jokes
Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter
'The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?'

Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
Sing if you're glad to be gay
Sing if you're happy that way
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Songwriters: Thomas Giles Robinson
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    SimoneS 2015-01-21 03:36:23
    Back in 1976 when Punk Rock broke, there was one band that set apart from the rest. The Tom Robinson Band was fronted by Tom Robinson, who was openly gay. Punk being quite macho, the TRB could have just been booed off every stage, but the conviction and courage of Tom himself, not to mention their great music, meant that they were generally accepted by most fans. "Glad To Be Gay" became their anthem, and it was sung along to by gays and straights, boys and girls, black and white... it was the essence of bringing a crowd together as one. The story in the song is all taken from real events, and it gives,even more so today, a document on what things were like at that time, for almost anyone that was different, and the way the Police and press treated them.
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