Letter To B.j. Lyrics - Singles - Redgum

Can you hear me Bjelke-Petersen 

From your leather padded chair? 

There's a tide outside your door 

Steadily rising 

It's a simple case of freedom 

And a lot of us who care 

And if demonstrations aren't enough 

Well I hope you've said your prayers 

It seems this time you've gone too far 

Next you'll call the troopers in 

And you can put my dossier 

In the glossy pages of the bulletin 

Oh you think the battle's over 

Well the war has just begun 

Your legislation's just a piece of tissue 

Oh won't you listen to the beat 

Of ten thousand marching feet? 

Taking to the street 

Oh there'll be a national monument 

In yellow-cake of course 

Oh where the plaque reads 

"Look what Bjelke-Petersen did" 

A traitor's tree, a traitor's rope, 

Thirty bits of silver 

And a couple of Queensland 

Jackboot kicks 

You think the battle's over 

Well the war has just begun 

Your legislation's just a piece of tissue 

Won't you listen to the beat 

Of ten thousand marching feet? 

Taking to the street 

You think the battle's over 

Well the war has just begun 

Your legislation's just a piece of tissue 

Won't you listen to the beat 

Of ten thousand marching feet? 

Taking to the street