I think I was churning out material at that time without being too discerning.
My excuse (not that excuse is needed) is that I was, by then, preoccupied with thoughts of setting up the business that became Z/Yen.
Anyway, this lyric about Yemen could have been used practically any time in the last 25 years (he writes in April 2019) but probably best that it remained (and remains) on the unused pile.
_ CIVIL WAR IN THE YEMENS _
(To the Tune of “Oranges And Lemons”)
VERSE 1
Oranges and lemons,
Civil war in the Yemens;
The people are starving,
While the warlords are carving.VERSE 2
Watch tourists hair raise,
They flew in British Airways;
“BA’s too rich”,
Says an aggressive bitch.VERSE 3
Who could she be?
She’s that cow Kate Adie;
What does she know?
She’s in Sarajevo.VERSE 4
Rift twixt North and South,
Big as Kate Adie’s mouth;
Those Brits who stayed on,
Flee from San’a to Aden.OUTRO
Here comes a vandal to burn, loot and rout,
And here comes a chopper to fly Britons out.
Below is a video that shows the lyrics to Oranges and Lemons while singers sing that old tune in a rather charming olde worlde folke musicke stylee: