Music and British Identity: The Exploited

Primary members: Wattie Buchan (and several others--members rotated frequently)
Band Biography
Albums of focus: Let's Start a War (1983)
Songs for study:

"Let's Start a War, Said Maggie One Day" (1983)

Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
With the unemployed masses we'll just do away
They won't mind, like sheep they'll go
They won't suss us, they'll never know

Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Fight for your country, die for their gain

Death and destruction all around
Shops and houses are razed to the ground
Burnt out houses and empty shells
Here on earth it's just a mortal hell

Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Fight for your country, die for their gain

 

How they died no one will ever know
They said they would save us,
as deterrents they would be used
Except they brought destruction to an earth that grows no food
Now we are gone forever,
no tombs can hold your names

Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Fight for your country, die for their gain

Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
With the unemployed masses we'll just do away
They won't mind, like sheep they'll go
They won't suss us, they'll never know

Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Let's start a war, said Maggie one day
Fight for your country, die for their gain