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Songs for the NHS

We're on the lookout for good NHS campaign songs. Please e-mail us if you know any and we'll put them here on the website
The NHS is not for sale: 
Great campaign track from Graham Finch - catchy tune, clear lyrics, good to play during public events and great song for demos
National Health Action Party election campaign song
Track "We Love You, NHS" written by Nicole Skeltys.
Performed by Melissa Whyatt, Ann Marie Sullivan, Lucy Foley, Mark Gardiner, Ross McGregor, and Nicole Skeltys.
Tory Boys Picnic: click here for the words
Mary Black sings Legal Illegal
A universal Ewan McColl song about one law for the rich and another for the poor.

Lyrics to Legal Illegal & Frances Black's website here:
Wave Goodbye to PFI  - Liverpool Socialist Singers

click here for words of Now Despairing NHS
Hackney's own singer-songwriter Shirley Murgraff with an NHS song for the Lib Dems
Click here for words to another of Shirley's songs - one for Labour this time:
Long time ago in '97

Political Anthropology

Andrew Lansley rap

A Bridge Over You - The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir
"A Bridge Over You" is a combination of two of the UK's favourite songs - "Fix You" by Coldplay and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel.
The single was produced in support of Macmillan Cancer Support and local healthcare charities.
Clare Palmer - 50,000 people can't be wrong
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Strawberry Thieves : privatisation song
See also links on their website to music and to other choirs singing political songs

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Raised Voices political choir
Are we gonna take it?    NHS cuts and privatisation song
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