• Murray Lachlan Young


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  • Farewell Maggie

    Farewell to you Maggie Oh Maggie farewell
    Some eulogise you, some give you hell
    Repeating the phrases that caused notoriety
    Stating there is no such thing as society

    Friend to the bank, brutally frank
    Reagan’s big pal, rode in a tank
    You mobilized classes with social volte-faces
    You mangled the unions, kicked euro arses

    Maggie, Maggie, Maggie!

    You parleyed with Pinochet, gifted the satirist.
    Nelson Mandela, you branded a terrorist
    Flogged council houses, sold the utilities
    Founded new Labour in all probability

    One usually lost if one stood up and fought yer
    You hammered your colleagues like lambs to the slaughter

    Stated the falklands were ‘ours’ in totality
    Turned the big bang to a fiscal reality
    Littered the city with monstrous earning
    The lady you stated was never for turning

    Your standing its seems in the final prognosis
    Reviled and admired in similar doses
    Some will remember the chill in your air
    Some will remember your teeth and your hair

    But most that you gave and you asked for no quarter

    Maggie, Maggie, Maggie

    Over and out

    But not bad for a greengrocers daughter


    Listen again to Songs from Murray's acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series The Alien balladeer.

    Murray Lachlan Young

    Murray sings the songs of some of those who walk the roads less travelled.

    www.bbc.co.uk/radio/programmes/a-z/by/alien%20balladeer/current

    Now also available for your permanent enjoyment from:

    www.cdbaby.com/cd/murraylachlanyoungandbes


    Murray Lachlan Young on 6Music Breakfast
    14th December 2012

    A Poem for the Pope, in 140 Characters


     

    Murray Lachlan Young is one of the UK’s most dynamic and best-known exponents of spoken-word and stand up poetry.

    Known best for his satirical commentaries on the bizarreness of contemporary life. Murray is known for punchy wit, brooding subtext & occasional attacks of unaccompanied erotic folk song. Murray has played the main stages at Glastonbury, T-in-the-Park and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre & has toured with The pretenders, Julian cope, Morcheeba, The Pet shop boys amongst others. Having recorded with Chuck D, Morcheeba, Jools Holland, Shriekback & many unknown bearded weirdoes, Murray has also appeared in Movies opposite, Gerard Depardieu, Hugh Grant, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Tim Spell, Rachel Weiss.

    Currently 6Music's resident poet, the original regular on Sony Gold winning Radio 4 Saturday Live show, regular on BBC radio 2 Culture show & contributor to the BBC's test match special. He is currently touring his own self-titled one man show, as well as his Modern Cautionary Tales For Children II. He writes regularly for The Times, Guardian, Erotic review & The Chap Magazine. Published in UK Italy & USA. Commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre News Night, BBC, ITV, MTV channel 4 & more.