Lyrics The Home Front - Billy Bragg
Father
mows
the
lawn
and
mother
peels
potatoes
Grandma
lays
the
table
alone
And
adjusts
a
photograph
of
the
unknown
soldier
In
this
Holy
of
Holies,
the
Home
And
from
the
TV
an
unwatched
voice
Suggests
the
answer
is
to
plant
more
trees
The
scrawl
on
the
wall
says
what
about
the
workers
And
the
voice
of
the
people
says
more
salt
please
Mother
shakes
her
head
and
reads
aloud
from
the
newspaper
As
Father
puts
another
lock
on
the
door
And
reflects
upon
the
violent
times
that
we
are
living
in
While
chatting
to
the
wife
beater
next
door
If
paradise
to
you
is
cheap
beer
and
overtime
Home
truths
are
easily
missed
Something
that
every
football
fan
knows
It
only
takes
five
fingers
to
form
a
fist
And
when
it
rains
here
It
rains
so
hard
But
never
hard
enough
to
wash
away
the
sorrow
I'll
trade
my
love
today
for
a
greater
love
tomorrow
The
lonely
child
looks
out
and
dreams
of
independence
From
this
family
life
sentence
Mother
sees
but
does
not
read
the
peeling
posters
And
can't
believe
that
there's
a
world
to
be
won
But
in
the
public
schools
and
in
the
public
houses
The
Battle
of
Britain
goes
on
The
constant
promise
of
jam
tomorrow
Is
the
New
Breed's
litany
and
verse
If
it
takes
another
war
to
fill
the
churches
of
England
Then
the
world
the
meek
inherit,
what
will
it
be
worth
Mother
fights
the
tears
and
father,
his
sense
of
outrage
And
attempts
to
justify
the
sacrifice
To
pass
their
creed
down
to
another
generation
'Anything
for
the
quiet
life'
In
the
Land
of
a
Thousand
Doses
Where
nostalgia
is
the
opium
of
the
age
Our
place
in
History
is
as
Clock
watchers,
old
timers,
window
shoppers.
Father
mows
the
lawn
and
Mother
peels
potatoes
Grandma
lays
the
table
alone
Where's
that
photograph
of
the
unknown
soldier
In
this
Holy
of
Holies,
the
Home
Father
mows
the
lawn
and
Mother
peels
potatoes
Grandma
lays
the
table
alone
Where's
that
photograph
of
the
unknown
soldier
In
this
Holy
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1 Greetings to the New Brunette
2 Train Train
3 The Marriage
4 Ideology
5 Levi Stubbs' Tears
6 Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now
7 There Is Power in a Union
8 Help Save the Youth of America
9 Wishing the Days Away
10 The Passion
11 The Warmest Room
12 The Home Front
13 Sin City
14 Deportees
15 There Is Power In a Union (Instrumental)
16 The Tracks of My Tears
17 Wishing the Days Away (Alternate Version)
18 The Clashing of Ideologies (Alternate Version)
19 Greetings To the New Brunette (Demo)
20 A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
21 Only Bad Signs
22 Hold the Fort
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