We're Wets is a Spitting Image song parodying the Tory left-wingers who opposed Thatcher's policies (wets). It features the former cabinet ministers Francis Pym and James Prior.
Lyrics[]
(Backing singers)
Can you guess who they are?
We bet you haven't guessed so far
(Pym)
Shall we tell them?
(Pym and Prior)
Let's!
We're wets, wets, wets
(Backing singers)
Swimming around underwater
Trying to avoid the grocer's daughter
Once in a while letting off a bit of back
(Pym and Prior)
And always getting our bottoms smacked
(Backing singers)
No matter how bad things get
(All)
We're wet, wet, wet
(Pym)
Me, I'm a wet and my name is Pym
(Prior)
Me, I'm a wet
(Pym)
But you won't have heard of him
(Pym and Prior)
Don't dare come out
And speak what we oughta
Just blow bubbles
Underwater
No matter how bloody awful things get
Because we're wet, wet, wet
Once in a while
We stick up our hand
Point out that things are not going as planned
But we never risk our neck
We're only fishy fellows and we're scared as heck
(All)
We're just drifting around under water
Trying to avoid the grocer's daughter
We used to be in the leader's pack
Now we flip v-signs behind her back
Doing sod-all as the sun of England sets
Cos we're wet, wet, wets
We're wet, wet, wets
Trivia[]
- The boat pushed By Denis Thatcher is named HMS Conqueror, a reference to the nuclear submarine of the same name which sank the General Belgrano during the Falklands War