The Dome - Our
tribute to the Millennium Dome
tune "Home boys Home" -"The North Country"
The Dome.mp3 click here to download a copy of the CD version
Oh who would be a sailor lad a sailing on the seas
For the best time of all is when you’re coming home for
leave
You’re slipping up the Thames to tie up at the quay,
There’s a giant shiny helmet where the dockyard used to
be,
Chorus
And it’s Dome boys Dome,
The Dome I’d like to see,
But it’s far from my home in
the North Country.
It’s smooth and it’s sleek
and it’s just for you and me,
They built it with our money but
you’ll not get in for free.
Oh the years are going fast and an era’s at an end
For two thousand years have just gone swiftly round the bend
To show that we are British and to mark the great event
The Lairy London Lunatics have put up a sort of tent.
Now the Dome it has united the great parties in the land,
Conservatives conceived it and they got it swiftly planned.
But they sold off all our assets so we chucked the Tories
out
Then Labour got their teeth in it thus saving it from
doubt.
Ch. And it’ Dome, etc.
So Blair gave mincy Mandelson eight hundred million quid,
To form a new experience for Mum, Dad and the kids.
But what did he come up with but a Surfball in a Dome
For consenting only adults in the privacy of home.
Ch. And it’s Dome, etc.
There’s a party planned for New Year's Eve to celebrate
the Dome,
With T. V. broadcast world wide to all of us at home.
That is until at midnight when the power fails I fear,
And all the surly Northern folk give one resounding cheer.
Ch. And it’s Dome, etc. Note -this verse was not included on the CD but refers to the strongly held belief at the time that everything computer driven would fail at midnight. This belief heavily supported by those who made a fortune out of selling 'millennium bug' software.
What overvalued architect designed the super dome,
Was it based upon a wok, Or Tellytubbies home.
Or was it based upon a zit, a boil on his hand,
Or is it just a dung beetle that’s sat upon the land.
Ch. And it’s Dome, etc.
D. Draper March 1999