Music by Tantrum Zentrum
Lyrics by Vaat Dafuq

This song is about falling in love...
With a fascist!

The song was inspired by the 80s Yugoslavian pop tune called "Fa Fa Fašista" (by Plavi Orkestar), which mocked the country's obsession with WWII. While the lyrics are not a direct translation of the original, they still contain a few Bosnian and corrupted German words for emphasis.

Vaat Dafuq – vocals, guitar
Sabine de Rousseau – guitar, vocals
Valhalla Schimmer – bass guitar
Igor Olejar – drums
Steve Evans – backing vocals

Produced by Stephen Evans and Tantrum Zentrum. Recorded at The Fortress, UK by Stephen Evans. Mixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos by Stephen Evans.

Additional synth and drum machine samples by punkdIDSCO.

Don't Be A Fascist

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Linton Kwesi Johnson  Sonny's Lettah (live acapella 1997)

20 years later :

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/bristol-tasered-man-judah-adunbi-the-police-attack-was-racist-and-i-was-terrified/story-30073820-detail/story.html

Lyrics:

From Brixton Prison, Jebb Avenue London S. W. 2 Inglan
Dear mama
Good day
I hope that when these few lines reach you they may
Find you in the best of health
I doun know how to tell ya this
For I did mek a solemn promise
To tek care a lickle Jim
An try mi bes fi look out fi him

Mama, I really did try mi bes
But none a di less
Sorry fi tell ya seh, poor lickle Jim get arres
It was de miggle a di rush hour
Hevrybody jus a hustle and a bustle
To go home fi dem evenin shower
Mi an Jim stan up waitin pon a bus
Not causin no fuss

When all of a sudden a police van pull up
Out jump tree policemen
De whole a dem carryin baton
Dem walk straight up to me and Jim
One a dem hold on to Jim
Seh dem tekin him in
Jim tell him fi leggo a him
For him nah do nutt'n
And 'I'm nah t'ief, not even a but'n
Jim start to wriggle
De police start to giggle

Mama, mek I tell you wa dem do to Jim?
Mek I tell you wa dem do to 'I'm?

Dem thump him him in him belly and it turn to jelly
Dem lick 'I'm pon 'I'm back and 'I'm rib get pop
Dem thump him pon him head but it tough like lead
Dem kick 'I'm in 'I'm seed and it started to bleed

Mama, I jus couldn't stan up deh, nah do nuttin'

So mi jook one in him eye and him started fi cry
Me thump him pon him mout and him started fi shout
Me kick him pon him shin so him started fi spin
Me hit him pon him chin an him drop pon a bin
- an crash, an dead

More policman come dung
Dem beat me to the grung
Dem charge Jim fi sus
Dem charge mi fi murdah

Mama, doan fret
Doan get depress an downhearted
Be of good courage-acap

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