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News reminds me about when I was a boy
How much I loved my Action Man toy
He’s in his foxhole in the attic with his boots & all
Still ready & waiting for his country’s call

Money & power make for vicious games
Kids & politicians well, they’re just the same
Just like spoilt little girls& boys
They want to forget when they’ve broke their toys

Politicians want to put them away
In a cardboard box for another day
When the oil barons want another play
In some god forsaken country far away

Come on Action Man
We’re going to take you by what’s left of your gripping hands
And though I don’t approve of Mr Cameron’s plans
This is England, not Afghanistan
We’re going to treat you
We’re going to treat you just as best as we can

Scratching his scar with the stump of his hand
His mind races back to the desert sands
He’s a stranger, an outsider a shell of a man
A foreigner in his own land

His eagle eyes find it hard to see
Since he stepped on the roadside IED
Answering his call of duty
All for the like of you & me

We’ve all been army dreamers but heaven knows
When it came to the crunch, it was peace that I chose
Someone’s gotta do it, yeah someone’s gotta go
These boys & girls well, they’re our heroes

Come on Action Man
We’re going to take you by what’s left of your gripping hands
And though I don’t approve of Mr Cameron’s plans
This is England, not Afghanistan
We’re going to treat you
We’re going to treat you just as best as we can

Instrumental

Come on Action Man
We’re going to take you by what’s left of your gripping hands
And though I don’t approve of Mr Cameron’s plans
This is England, not Afghanistan

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from The Shed Sessions Vol. II, released November 24, 2013

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John D Revelator Glastonbury, UK

Get ready to revelate with John D Revelator!

John D Revelator are John Diment (guitar, mandolin, cigar box, whistles & accordion). Ann Diment (percussion, washboard & backing vocals). , Geraint Coll (Guitar) Simon Morey (bass & backing vocal) and Richard Chant on Drums & Backing vocals.
We do songs of love loss, death, ditches, rabbits & revolution.

From the heart of the West Country with love!
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