Prime Minister John Major’s “Back To Basics” campaign was the gift that kept on giving to comedy folk like me back then.
This lyric almost wrote itself and ran in NewsRevue a lot in 1994.
_ GET BACK TO BASICS _
(To the Tune of “Get Back”)
VERSE 1
Major was a man who thought he was a leader,
But he knew it wouldn’t last;
Major was a feeble ineffective bleeder,
Borrowed slogans from the past.
CHORUS 1
MAJOR:Get back, get back, get back to basics once again;
Get back, get back, Victorians were real men;
Get back to basics!! (Trollop)
VERSE 2
Yeo Yeo was a man who hated single mothers,
Tho he was a single dad;
Yeo Yeo thought that morals just applied to others,
Others thought that Yeo was mad.
CHORUS 2
MAJOR:Get back, get back, get back on the backbench again;
You lack, you lack, the morals on which we depend;
Get back, backbencher! (you trollop)
VERSE 3
Tory was a party hated indiscretion,
Didn’t like the way it looks;
Major gave the public a distinct impression,
With the House of Commons cooks.
CHORUS 3
Set back, set back, set back to Tories once again;
Lets sack, lets sack, the hypocrite at number ten.
MAJOR:Get back to basics
ALL:Basically you’re crap
MAJOR:Oh bollocks.
Below is Ben Murphy’s recording of Get Back To basics:
Click here for a link to the Beatles singing Get Back with lyrics on the screen. The embedded vid below doesn’t have the lyrics.
In February 1994 I replaced Verse 3 et. seq. with the following:
VERSE 3
MAJOR:Stephen was a sad sack with no contaception,
Never had a furtive shag;
CHORUS:Stephen it appears preferred his own erection,
With a flex and plastic bag.
CHORUS 3
Get back, get back, get back to Playtex once again,
Get black, get black, get black suspenders on your men;
Set back, set back, set back to Tories once again;
Lets sack, lets sack, the hypocrite at number ten.
And lets hear it for Hartley Booth, the easy lay preacher:
Amen.