Roger Waters - Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert & Southampton Dock (In The Flesh Live Tour 2000)

Personnel:

Roger Waters Bass guitar, acoustic & electric guitar, lead vocals.

Doyle Bramhall II Guitars, vocals.

Andy Fairweather Low Guitars, bass guitar, vocals.

Snowy White Guitars.

Andy Wallace Keyboards, Hammond organ.

Jon Carin Keyboards, lap steel, programming, acoustic guitar, vocals.

Katie Kissoon Vocals.

Susannah Melvoin Vocals.

P. P. Arnold Vocals.

Graham Broad Drums, percussion.

Norbert Stachel Saxophones.

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Get your filthy hands off my desert (Waters) - lyrics:

"Oi...Get your filthy hands off my desert!"

"What 'e say?"

Brezhnev took Afghanistan.

Begin took Beirut.

Galtieri took the Union Jack.

And Maggie, over lunch one day,

Took a cruiser with all hands.

Apparently, to make him give it back.

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Southampton dock (Waters) - lyrics:

They disembarked in 45

And no-one spoke and no-one smiled

There were to many spaces in the line.

Gathered at the cenotaph

All agreed with the hand on heart

To sheath the sacrificial Knifes.

But now

She stands upon Southampton dock

With her handkerchief

And her summer frock clings

To her wet body in the rain.

In quiet desperation knuckles

White upon the slippery reins

She bravely waves the boys Goodbye again.

And still the dark stain spreads between

His shoulder blades.

A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves.

And when the fight was over

We spent what they had made.

But in the bottom of our hearts

We felt the final cut