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Notebooks Out Plagiarists

from Lanarky by Tommy Mackay

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Notebooks out, plagiarists
Here we fucking go (here we, here we)
It's one of those songs that's just a list
of people you should know
oh oh oh

Anon, anon, anon, John Bunyan
Angus Black and John Glashan
William Blake, Borges, James Joyce
Franz Kafka and Christopher Boyce

Robert Burns, Lord Goodman
Joseph Conrad, Jim Kelman
Thomas Carlyle, Joyce Cary
Sigmund Freud and Walt Disney

George Douglas Brown, God, Ibsen
Hugh MacDiarmid, John Milton
Lewis Carroll, Liz Lochead
Arthur Koestler, Tom Leonard

Notebooks out, plagiarists
Here we fucking go (here we, here we)
It's one of those songs that's just a list
of people you should know
oh oh oh

William Makepeace Thackeray
William Shakespeare, Tina Reid
William Golding, Thomas Mann
Flann O'Brien, Xenophon

Coleridge, Hobbes, James Hadley Chase
Sylvia Plath, Norman MacCaig
Goethe, David Hume, Carl Jung
Joan Ure, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Li Peng, Edgar Allan Poe
Tom McGrath, Lord Monboddo
Jean-Paul Sartre, George Orwell
Alan Spence, Edith Sitwell

Notebooks out, plagiarists
Here we fucking go (here we, here we)
It's one of those songs that's just a list
of people you should know
oh oh oh

Marx and Melville, Wilhelm Reich
Zoroaster, Heinrich Heine
Catriona NicGumaraid
DH Lawrence, Brian McCabe

Col. Stukely Younghusband
Imperial Gazetteer Of Scotland
Reverend P Hately Waddel
Dylan Thomas, Carl MacDougall

The Guardian, T.S. Eliot
Archie Hind, Kurt Vonnegut
Marcella Evaristi
Reverend Charles Kingsley

Notebooks out, plagiarists
Here we fucking go (here we, here we)
It's one of those songs that's just a list
of people you should know
oh oh oh

F Scott Fitzgerald, Dan Propper
Donald Goodbrand Saunders
Bill Price Turner
Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer

Reverend George MacDonald,
Alexander Pope
Amos Totuola,
Nearly there
Don't give up hope

Rev. Henry James Prince
Angus Nicholson
WC Smith
HG Wells,
Dr Philip Hobsbaum

Aonghas MacNeacail

Marcus Fabricius Quintillianus
Not everyone here is famous

Notebooks out, plagiarists
That's yer fucking lot
Every single citation
From Lanark's epilogue
Oh

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from Lanarky, released April 25, 2021

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Tommy Mackay Edinburgh, UK

Scottish comedy performer and editor of The Daily Reckless - the paper that sings the news.

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