Name: Turkeys
Duration: P00H03M18S
Description: The first track of the Christmas album. Part vegan, part social commentary

Turkeys

from A Christmas Crisis (for Crisis at Christmas) by Liam McKenna and friends

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The first track of the Christmas album. Part vegan, part social commentary

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Every year you say the turkey's dry
It's tough enough to make a boxer cry
But you swear it's a tradition
It's on your Christmas list
But the turkeys didn't vote for this.

You could have got a job plucking turkeys on a farm
You could have lived the dream
chasing them round the yard
And you could have wringed their necks
And drunk the blood fresh from the stumps
Well it never did us any harm

You swear it's a tradition
We respect your dying wish
But the turkeys didn't vote for this
The turkeys didn't vote for this

There's 13 million turkeys in this country at a guess
Another 3 million if you include those who voted Lib Dem
16 million turkeys who've been told to blame the chickens
And they'd go and do it all again
They'd go and do it all again

But one day those turkeys will see through you
One day those turkeys will see through the gobbledygook
One day those turkeys will come for you

One day those turkeys will see the farm for what it is
Because the turkeys didn't vote for this
The turkeys didn't vote for this

And when the turkeys realise that they don't bleed blue
The turkeys are gonna come for you
When the turkeys realise that they don't bleed blue
The turkeys are gonna come for you

The turkeys will come for you
The turkeys will come for you
The turkeys will come for you
etc

But one day

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from A Christmas Crisis (for Crisis at Christmas), released December 14, 2020
Music/Words: Liam McKenna

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Liam McKenna Wales, UK

Writer/performer/musician. Co-founder of the mighty and unstoppable force of Fire Donkey

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