I've been drinking in the Ornithologists' Arms
Come with me, let's go there now We'll drink to the revolution We'll drink to the avian population We'll drink and drink we'll talk and talk, we'll talk and drink some more We'll drink and drink we'll talk and talk, we'll talk and drink some more 'Cos you can't save the birds without saving the planet And you can't save the planet under capital Under capital We'll have a pint with the country postman He'll talk of early morning owls And of night-jars in the mist And how his management take the piss And singers and poets and all value freedom Will talk of birds on the wing And the songs of freedom that they sing And the flight of the peregrine I've been drinking in the Ornithologists' Arms Come with me, let's go there now We'll drink to the revolution We'll drink to the avian population We'll drink and drink we'll talk and talk, we'll talk and drink some more We'll drink and drink we'll talk and talk, we'll talk and drink some more 'Cos you can't save the birds without saving the planet And you can't save the planet under capital Under capital And the sign of the pub is a giant murmuration It's starlings practising mutual aid And on the bookshelf sits battered old Kropotkin He was more than red in tooth and claw And on the walls hang old binoculars That date from early in this age of extinction Charts of sea levels rising Charts of sea levels rising I've been drinking in the Ornithologists' Arms Come with me, let's go there now We'll drink to the revolution We'll drink to the avian population We'll drink and drink we'll talk and talk, we'll talk and drink some more We'll drink and drink we'll talk and talk, we'll talk and drink some more 'Cos you can't save the birds without saving the planet And you can't save the planet under capital Under capital And the vagrants and the migrants are all equally welcome Yes the vagrants and the migrants are all equally welcome It's not like here, it's not like here Yes the vagrants and the migrants are all equally welcome I've been drinking in the Ornithologists' Arms Come with me, let's go there now
