Referendum (Legend)
Roy Harper

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There was a man from Muddlebro', whose problems he laid down 
Upon another's doorstep, in a distant stranger's town 
But forgeting what he'd come for, and in patronizing tones 
He gave them all his clothes and bread, to stop their moans and groans 
  
"It's not your fault where you were born", he said, all condescending, 
"We cannot all be made like me, with lots of true-blue blending", 
"But never-mind, i'll pass the hat around our gracious nation" 
The strangers held their laughter back, remembering their station... 
 
Back home in the Heads of State the people's memory woke 
And yet their yapping didn't stop, whoever rose and spoke 
But in the fields potatoes flowered, and gulls came with high tides 
And men came back from cutting wood, and gathered by firesides.