The Dirt On Tony Blair Chorus, NewsRevue Lyric, 1 October 1996

I’m trying to work out what I was getting at with this one. I think the conceit of it was the idea doing the rounds that Tony Blair was a closet Roman Catholic – the twist in the lyric being the idea that he was a closet Tory.

I don’t think it got used in NewsRevue, which is such a shame.

THE DIRT ON TONY BLAIR CHORUS
(To the Tune of “Gloria”)
A BIT OF BAROQUE AND ROLL TO BE SUNG ACAPELLA

INTRO – DIDDLY POM CHORUS

Pom-pom, pom pom, pom-pom, pom pom pom,
Diddly om pom pom, diddly om pom pom
Pom-pom, pom pom, pom-pom, pom pom pom,
Diddle-iddle-iddle pom, diddle-iddle-iddle pom,
Pom-pom, pom pom, pom-pom, pom pom pom,
Diddly om pom pom, diddly om pom pom
Pom-pom, pom pom, pom-pom, pom pom pom,
Diddle-iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle, iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle,
Pom
Diddle-iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle iddle-iddle

(you can work this stuff out yourselves – I’m a lyricist you know, not a bloody acapellist)

1st LYRICAL BIT – LYRICAL CHORUS & DIDDLY POM CHORUS

Tony Blair, Tony Blair (iddle-iddle-iddle pom, iddle-iddle-iddle pom)
Tony Blair, Tony Blair (iddle-iddle-iddle pom, iddle-iddle-iddle pom)
Is an evil genius,
He’s an evil genius.
Tony Blair, Tony Blair, Tony Blair, Tony Blair,
Is a secret Tory.
(iddle-iddle-iddle pom, iddle-iddle-iddle pom iddle-iddle-iddle pom, iddle-iddle-iddle pom)
Tony Blair, Tony Blair, is a se-e-e-e-cret…….Tory.
(So what’s new?)

2nd LYRICAL BIT – LYRICAL CHORUS & DIDDLY POM CHORUS

Tony has evil eyes and,
Tone has a legal wife named,
Cheri;
Cheri Blair’s been in court occasionally.
Pom-pom, pom pom, pom-pom, pom pom pom,
Diddly om pom pom, diddly om pom pom
Pom-pom, pom pom, pom-pom, pom pom pom,
He’s a clo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-set;
(A closet what?)
Tony Blair is a closet Tory.
Pom diddly-om diddly-om
Diddly-om pom pom.

Below is Gloria In Excelsis Deo from Vivaldi’s Gloria in D Major Gloria V589, with the music and Latin lyrics on screen: