Accidents Will Happen (Mix It With Orange Squash)
by @andybalham
Liner Notes
This is the true story of Britain's worst mass poisoning, when twenty thousand people had aluminium sulphate dumped into their water supply.
Those people included the mother of one of my closest friends. None of them got justice. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelford_water_pollution_incident
Lyrics
Accidents will happen, at Lowermoor in eighty-eight Accidents will happen, twenty tonnes of poison sulphate Accidents will happen, dumped into the water supply Of unknowing folk, as they woke To go about their daily lives
Accidents will happen, the water was blue and green Accidents will happen, people started calling in Accidents will happen, it burns when I wash They were told it’s safe, and for the taste Mix it with orange squash
Accidents will happen, and water was to be privatised Accidents will happen, but keep them out of investors eyes Accidents will happen, to hell with the human cost Tell them it’s safe, and for the taste Mix it with orange squash
Accidents will happen, twenty thousand poisoned lives Accidents will happen, but no one held to rights Accidents will happen, justice forever lost Just told it’s safe, and for the taste Mix it with orange squash
Love the concept (I had never heard of this poisoning in spite of being in the country at the time). Not sure if feedback is to congratulate, encourage or offer suggestions so I will leave it at that!