| 'One United Kingdom they fancied wouldn’t do.
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| To please some grumbling Irishmen they split it in two.
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| Two little kingdoms, but then the Scots, you see, Claimed their ancient throne
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| and rights, then there were three.
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| Three little kingdoms but then one more,
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| For Welshmen claimed a Parliament and then there were four.
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| Four little kingdoms wouldn’t do it all!
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| One of them was too big; |
| the others were too small.'
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| And this is the price we’ll pay
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| Take a lesson from your history.
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| 'Divide and conquer is the game we play.'
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| And this is the price we’ll pay.
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| 'All across Great Britain ancient hates revived.
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| Cornwall wants to rule herself, and then there were five.
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| Five little kingdoms, but London in a fix,
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| Raised the 'Southern English' flag and then there were six.
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| Six little kingdoms, the 'Home Rule' heaven,
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| Caused a stirring in the West, and then there were seven.
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| Seven little kingdoms, Northmen wouldn’t wait,
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| Hailed Northumbria and then there were eight.'
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| And this is the price we’ll pay
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| Take a lesson from your history.
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| 'A house divided simply cannot stand.'
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| And this is the price we’ll pay.
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| 'And the towns one may visit via the Eastern Counties line,
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| Formed East Anglia and then there were nine.
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| Nine little kingdoms, the midlands people then
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| Called themselves a parliament, and then there were ten.
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| Ten little kingdoms never could agree,
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| How to work together and so they went free.
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| Ten little kingdoms to weak to stand alone,
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| A foreign nation conquered them and then they were gone.'
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| And this is the price we’ll pay
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| Take a lesson from your history.
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| 'Devolution is the devil’s ploy.'
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| And this is the price we’ll pay. |