The Browning of the Green

Exponential family planning: Let me play the numbers game Sign up for some benefits, get my Dues and stake a claim Spill out to suburbia then spread Onwards to the country wide And when the last plot's taken, I'll Spill out on to the other side It's the browning of the green: we'll Be tight as canned sardine Lemmings to the right and the left of Us and all points in between... It's the browning of the green Be fruitful: nothing to it. Fill the Earth, subdue it, multiply It's written in that Goodly Book. So It's really best that I comply Another baby-booming bloomer? Imbecile fecundity? Another mouth, but what the Hell? Child benefits, they come for free It's the browning of the green: we'll Be tight as canned sardine Lemmings to the right and the left of Us and all points in between... It's the browning of the green A little boy, a little girl: quite Perfect but it won't suffice Bouncing bairns upon my knee; Six or seven might be nice Come, time to go with Daddy, find Ourselves some open playground space On these concrete fields of England, this Blessed realm, this blessed place It's the browning of the green: we'll Be tight as canned sardine Lemmings to the right and the left of Us and all points in between... It's the browning of the green