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50th Anniversary Song: Keep the Searchlight Shining

October 6, 2014 by Kathryn and Nick 1 Comment

Image credit: Cameron Grant via Flickr

Image credit: Cameron Grant via Flickr

For the 50th Anniversary of Searchlight Magazine, we collaborated with our go-to singer, Stella, to commemorate the occasion. Whilst its first public performance wasn’t exactly a success (we forgot to bring Stella with us. Seriously. This is not a joke), the song’s an absolute belter.

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Keep the Searchlight Shining

Music credit: Ivor Novello

It was May 1964
And the country was distracted

By revving bikes and beardy types; and
How mainstream press reacted
But a current bubbled under
Of ‘wogs’ V. pure whitey blood
By the time Enoch made his speech
We’d spent four years exposing crud
 
Keep the Searchlight Shining
50 years headlining
A hunt revealing the far right
In your home town
Angry hatred’s creeping
But our beams are sweeping
We seek world news and bring you proof
Pens wear bullies down
 
Now five decades of exposing
Has put us to the test
But we gave heartfelt labour
Honour made us do no less
For no gallant Son of Freedom
Could bend to the far right
And a noble heart must answer
When the world needs a Searchlight

Keep the Searchlight Shining
50 years headlining
A hunt revealing the far right
In your home town
Angry hatred’s creeping
But our beams are sweeping
We seek world news and bring you proof
Pens wear bullies down

Keep the Searchlight Shining
50 years headlining
A hunt revealing the far right
In your home town
Angry hatreds creeping
But our beams are sweeping
We seek world news and bring you proof
Pens wear bullies down

Pens wear bullies down

 

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