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
about them raiding our pubs for no reason at all.
Lining the customers up by the wall,
picking out people, knocking them down,
resisting arrest as they're kicked on the ground,
searching their houses,
calling 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.
Sing if you're glad to be gay.
Sing if you're happy that way.
Pictures of naked young women are fun.
In tidbits of Playboy, page three of The Sun.
There's no nudes in Gay News,
our one magazine,
but they still found excuses to call it obscene.
Read how disgusting we are in the press.
The Telegraph, People and Sunday Express.
Molesters of children, corruptors of youth.
It's there in the paper.
It must be the truth.
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.
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.
Queer bashes caught him,
kicked in his teeth,
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 step back and watch as they close down our clubs.
Arrest us for beating 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 Queen's Tale, anti-queer jokes.
Gay lives 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.