Don´t start me talking
I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I´m putting the world to right
Called careers information
Have you got yourself an occupation?

Oliver´s army is here to stay
Oliver´s army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

There was a checkpoint Charlie
He didn´t crack a smile
But it´s no laughing party
When you´ve been on the murder mile

Only takes one itchy trigger
One more widow, one less white nigger

Oliver´s army is here to stay
Oliver´s army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

Hong Kong is up for grabs
London is full of Arabs
We could be in Palestine
Overrun by a Chinese line
With the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne

But there´s no danger
It´s a professional career
Though it could be arranged
With just a word in Mr. Churchill´s ear

If you´re out of luck or out of work
We could send you to Johannesburg

Oliver´s army is here to stay
Oliver´s army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today