Jethro Tull- Commons Brawl

All right and honorable gentlemen
And lady, too
Will kindly try to restrain themselves
In derring-do

As verbal hard graffiti flies
And echoes wall to wall
Our precious model of democracy
It's the House of Commons brawl

One member from some dark mill town
Furious did cry
Spittle froth from folded chin
To dim the lie

Let's serve this brief and list the rush
Of who's allowed catcalls
Let's finish this right here and now
At the House of Commons brawl

Kick, punch with the government
As with jackets off they fly heaven-bent
Scratch gouge with the other side
As the party firmly admit a fight

Another day in the lives of those
Who would guide us through
If all is prepped that we should
By their example do
But there again I think for less
For gyving to the wall
The wrong house but the right idea
To end the Commons brawl

Jethro Tull- Commons Brawl, from the album Nightcap: Unreleased and Rare Tracks.

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[dennis738]

I believe it goes "As the party firmly did divide" for the last line of the fifth stanza. And I think crossEyedMary69 had it right for the last stanza.

[crossEyedMary69]

Hi, I heard another version of last stanza:

Another day in the lives of those who would guide us through,

it follows perhaps that we should by their example do,

but there again I think for less poor Guy went to the wall.

The wrong house but the right idea

to end the Commons brawl.

- "poor Guy" would be Guy Fawkes and his Gunpowder Plot.