Song For Thatcher

[sp1814]

It looks like that Wizard Of Oz song might crack the top three this Sunday.

Perhaps supporters of Baroness Thatcher could start and equal and opposite Twitter/Facebook campaign for a song which they feel best summarises her?

Popular sentiment will propel a song to number one, off the back of a news story ('Candle In The Wind' and 'Killing In The Name' spring to mind).

What would Thatcher's (positive) song be?

[factor-fiction]

^comeradeship

[factor-fiction]

^ something wrong with my keyboard. Letters are appearing several seconds after I type them. I'll try again:
comradeship

[jim360]

Maggie May - Rod Stewart?

[guilliebrougues]

I agree It's a working man. If she, Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister when my dad was 16, he may still be alive today. He worked in the coal face and died of dust disease.

[razza]

I did it my way

[sp1814]

jim360

That's exactly what I thought of - then I remembered the lyric and realised...slightly inappropriate (it's about a young man who loses his virginity to an older woman during the summer of love).

[sp1814]

I've got it...

'Jerusalem'.

I win.

[anneasquith]

Oh Flower of Scotland .. ?

[tonyav]

Also !.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCGcljqOSW0

[jim360]

sp - oh. Maybe I should have read the lyrics.

[Tilly2]

Which bit relates to Maggie?

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land

[anneasquith]

re the song. if elton sang at dianas funeral, who should do a sola at maggies ?

[tiggerblue10]

Shouldn't it be this one, it was her favourite song wasn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QscvXkYQAek

[factor-fiction]

Hi tigerblue- I can confidently say that Rolf Harris won't be invited to sing this at the funeral

[jim360]

Who do you think you are kidding Maggie Thatcher, if you think the Left is done..."

[TWR]

Although I did not like her or her policies, I think people should refrain from coming out with stupid, unnecessary slanderers songs & lower themselves, we may have bad thoughts about M.T. apart from the fact she will be remembered for the wrong reasons, she was someone Mother ( & we all have / did have one.

[sp1814]

TWR

No - this thread is about which song could celebrate her, not throw mud at her.

[emmie]

a positive song would be Jerusalem,
i believe she loved this country, was a patriot and wanted to do the best she could in a tough job, first woman PM, and may be the last the way things are going. I wondered what other women MP's think from all sides of the divide if they ever thought of running for the top job, still a man's world to a large degree.

[anneasquith]

first woman mp.......... something by the spice girls ( girl power ) :)