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Dr. Gelati & The Lemon Garden

from Live And In Stereo by The Cut Throat Razors

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This is the title track of our debut album and I have already written about the background to it in the sleeve notes for the album, but for those who missed it (!)..... It was inspired by a book by John Dickie called 'Cosa Nostra - A History of the Sicilain Mafia'. After we released it I contacted him and sent him a copy. He liked it (I think) and was kind enough to give us a quote to use.

It's a great song to play live and the crowd really get into it. So altogether now...

'Mussolini - FASCIST BASTARD!!!'

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Dr. Gelati & the Lemon Garden

Once in lemon scented Palermo
A danger lurks in the garden
A dark and sinister creed
Who lives for money and greed
And is bound by an oath of loyalty
A murderous secret society

We are many yet we are few
We are evil but we are you
We’re the best with many heads
We’re the nightmare in your beds
We’ve got lawyers, judges, bankers, soldiers too

I am beautiful and I am bold
I’m a killer and I am cold
Just remember when we meet
I have toothache be discreet
Or you’ll end up lying, dying in the street

Chorus

Oh, you men of honour
Oh, you men of class
Behold, you men of honour
If you don’t play the game
You will live a life of shame
And you’ll feel the wrath of mafia tyranny

Bernadino, what a hero
A socialist like Sicily’s never seen
With his peasant federation
He attacked our very nation
‘til we ran him down and shot him in the spleen

Mussolini, fascist bastard!
A scum bag of right wing tyranny
He very nearly had us
With his leather and his blackshirts
‘til the yanks delivered us ‘liberty’

Chorus

Joe Bananas, Americanos
Sicilian by birth through and through
Narcotics we control
We destroy your very soul
And we’ll kill you if you turn the other way

Luciano, he’s the capo di capo
And you should live in fear
When you’re lying in your bed
He will shoot you in your head
He’s a crazy motherfucker, he’s insane

Chorus

So here’s a warning to all of Italy
You cut our throats? Be prepared for what you see
For the smell of mafia has a lure
To the rich, the powerful and the poor
And the blood that will flow from our veins
Won’t wash away all your shame

Chorus

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from Live And In Stereo, released November 19, 2013
Words and Music by Scott Crawford

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The Cut Throat Razors Glasgow, UK

The Cut Throat Razors are a sharp dressed 10-piece band from Glasgow. Their first album, ‘Dr Gelati and the Lemon Garden’ was released in December 2012. Their self-penned songs of love, lingerie, libation and liberation are backed up with a big punchy sound, evoking ska, motown, new wave and big band. This is The Cut Throat Razors- you will find them strangely unique,or perhaps, uniquely strange… ... more

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