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A well-worn traditional song, ‘Rigs of the Time’ (Roud 876) has been continually updated to accommodate different rigs for different times, and so here is our contribution with additional words by Julian Gaskell, recorded whilst watching the Tory party conference in October 2023.

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The lights are all turned off, there’s no one in town
‘cept those Exxon shareholders who ride up and down
If you ask them the reason they’ll say ‘bon alas
Some Russian dictator just pumped up our gas’
Honesty's all out of fashion
These are the rigs of the time, time, my boys
These are the rigs of the time.

So here’s to the landlord, I must bring him in
Overcharging each month, he thinks it no sin
The tenants pay up and wipe mould off the kitchen
But in two months for airbnb face evicting
Honesty's all out of fashion &c.

So here’s to our PM, I must bring him in
Like the others before him, who think it no sin
With only eyes for the lobby they lie through a grin
As we watch our lives wither through a perspex screen
Honesty's all out of fashion &c.

And here’s to the opposition, I must bring them in
For rattling small change in a populist tin
While the workers are striking for a decent day’s pay
Starmer writes for the Mail and looks the other way
Honesty's all out of fashion &c.

Now the very best thing that I could find
Is to hoist them on their hot air in a high gale of wind.
When the wind it do blow, the balloon it would burst
And the biggest old tory come tumbling down first.
Honesty's all out of fashion &c.

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from A Shandy Ballad, released November 3, 2023
Recorded in Penryn,
October 2023
Julian Gaskell - vocal, accordion, bodhran, bells
Cally Gibson - violin, viola

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Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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