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When you use your radio set This is what you tend to get On a normal day Excepting when a play intervenes inbetween And if you think we like it you're utterly wrong This is only temporary and soon we'll move on Let me tell you our ambition Greater things will be our aim We won't always be doing the same We want to play Bartok and all the fast parts of The Tchaikovsky Pathétique If we had our way then you Could stuff the Blue Danube Up the proverbial creek But at the moment Our position Is one of Cultural stagnation With the Charlie Harris Novelty Five The Warsaw Concerto Arranged for Trombones and oboe Lacks that indefinable drive So when news time comes around We practise Bach It gives our daily round A little extra spark And while The Archers are on after tea There's time for half of a Brahms symphony And a Mozart sonata Taken appassionata Or perhaps a little faster Leaves a few minutes free But then we're off again Rachmaninoff again Just has to wait while we play Ivor Novello tunes Songs of South Sea lagoons Waltzes and Anchors Aweigh We churn out rubbish all day long Sickly grin, sing along Bye bye culture We have higher things in mind Scho-enberg, twelve-tone lines Bye bye culture So we keep up our pretence We wear a grin 'cause what's the sense In grumbling if we can still play Beethoven Haydn Schubert Schumann Thus our yoke we kindly bear 'cause soon as we are off the air 's the only chance we have to play A bit of uncompromising jazz (Yeah!)
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