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No Cause For Alarm
I do unfortunately (for me!) have a tendency to write songs with a "sing-by" date on them! "No Cause For Alarm" is an example of that - some of the things mentioned in the song are no longer relevant. In an effort to redress this I wrote some new verses in 2004, but I've only sung them once - somehow it didn't feel right. Perhaps it’s just too ingrained in my head in the original form.
This song was recorded by Red Shift on their album, Back In The Red; when John Adams played me a snippet of their arrangement in a North London club, I didn’t recognise it at first.
No Cause For Alarm © Bill Prince 1984/2004
A-tests on Christmas Island No cause for alarm
Cover your face with your hands No-one will come to harm
Follow your orders, do as you're told
The situation is under control and there's
No cause, no cause for alarm
Power station at Windscale No cause for alarm
Safety measures that can't fail No-one will come to harm
We've paid compensation to three or four men
But rest assured it can't happen again and there's
No cause, no cause for alarm
Research lab at Teddington No cause for alarm
Working with Uranium No-one will come to harm
Though there's been a slight leak for about twenty years
The experts confirm that there's nothing to fear and there's
No cause, no cause for alarm
Cruise missiles at Greenham No cause for alarm
American soldiers to guard the No-one will come to harm
They're just a deterrent, what's all the fuss?
They won't push the button without asking us and there's
No cause, no cause for alarm
Nuclear waste dump at Elstow No cause for alarm
It has to go somewhere, we all know No-one will come to harm
We'll bury the waste deep under the clay
In two hundred years or so it will decay and there's
No cause, no cause for alarm
Government at Westminster No cause for alarm
There really is nothing sinister No-one will come to harm
Though we keep a few secrets it must be understood
We can't tell you everything for your own good but there's
No cause, no cause for alarm
No cause for alarm
No cause for alarm
New (replacement) verse 2
Power station at Windscale No Cause for Alarm
Safety measures that can't fail No-one will come to harm
There's fire in the chimney, worst incident yet
But we'll just change the name and they'll quickly forget, so there's
No Cause, No Cause for Alarm
2 New verses
Weapons of Mass Destruction No Cause for Alarm
We know that Saddam must have some No-one will come to harm
He's hidden them well, on that you can bet
So it isn't surprising we've not found them yet, but there's
No Cause, No Cause for Alarm
Back up at Windscale again No Cause for Alarm ( I refuse to call it Sellafield)
We're missing some plutonium No-one will come to harm
It's just thirty kilos, a trivial amount
And we've not really lost it, it's just we can't count, but there's
No Cause, No Cause for Alarm
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