Glad To Be Gay

This song is dedicated to the World Health Organization

It's a medical song and it concerns a disease whose classification

According to the International Classification of Diseases

Is 302.0

The British police are the best in the world

I don't believe one of these stories I've heard

'Bout them raiding our pubs for no reason at all

Lining the customers up by the wall

Pickin' out people knockin' 'em down

Resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground

Searchin' their houses callin' them queer

I don't believe that sort of thing happens  here

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way, hey

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way

Pictures of naked young women are fun

In Tidbits and Playboy, page three of The Sun

There's no nudes in Gay News, our one magazine

But they still find excuses to call it obscene

Read how disgusting we are in the press

The Telegraph, People, and Sunday Express

Molesters of children, corrupters of youth

It's there in the paper, it must be the truth

Try and sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way, hey

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way

Don't try to kid us that if you're discreet

You're perfectly safe as you walk down the street

You don't have to mince or make bitchy remarks

To get beaten unconscious and left in the dark

I had a friend who was gentle and short

He was lonely one evening, he went for a walk

Queerbashers caught him, kicked in his teeth

He was only hospitalized for a week and he still bears the scars

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way, hey

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way

And sit back and watch as they close down our clubs

Arrest us for meeting and raid all our pubs

Make sure your boyfriend's at least 21

So only your friends and your brothers get done

Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks

Put down the queens, tell anti-queer jokes

Gay lib's ridiculous, join their laughter

The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?

Tell them

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way, hey

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way, hey

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy this way