Inspired by a news item in 2018, Simon Oak wrote this true-story-song about Rhodri Philipps, an arrogant English aristocrat, a racist, a convicted criminal, and a Leave-voter in David Cameron’s anti-EU Referendum that started off the UK’s highly damaging Brexit process. Philipps issued a £5,000 reward for the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over Gina Miller, after she had won a court case against the government over Brexit.

Featured Image credits: Witness for the Prosecution – Photo by Ellie Kurttz

Lyrics

^1. There once was a viscount in Pembroke
His great-grandfather’s sole heir
On life he had a strange outlook
He’d go after girls with dark hair

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“I’m not .. Mister Saint Davids, I’m afraid.
It’s Lord Saint Davids.” he said
Before he stood up his case to be made
For putting a price on her head

^2. This price it was Brexit related
He didn’t like her to fight for her right
Smart people of color he hated
Those “immigrants” should be quiet and polite

^3. His mother was from Santiago
His father a Peer in the Lords
A lover of Rossini’s adagio
But he didn’t quite play the same chords

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^4. He lost his family fortune
And borrowed from friends to pretend
His dealings grew out of proportion
His wife never knew what he’d spent

^5. In Germany he swindled for millions
For to fly in his own private jet
He bought him an opera singer
And he slept 12 months in a prison bed

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^6. Once free and back home in West Sussex
He defaulted again on his debts
So he ran into grave repercussions
Lost his villa and his polo caps

^7. Now he’s bankrupt, abased and frustrated
A whole life lived beyond his means
An aristocrat filled with hatred
Just blaming blacks, Liberals and Greens

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