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Your support makes all the difference.Radio 1 has banned the latest Prodigy single, "Smack My Bitch Up". The band seems likely to join a distinguished list of other artists who have reached No 1 partly as a result of a BBC ban
From opium flowers
Through golden showers
To dreams requiring tissues
Old Auntie has to draw the line
She feels, at certain issues
In years gone by
A sultry sigh
Would make poor Auntie blench
Accompanied by steamy words
Especially in French
Much hipper now
But still somehow
Like sheep dressed up as mutton
From time to time she feels the need
To press the bleep-out button
An airplay ban
Works better than
The front page of The Sun
No sooner Auntie's censure
Than the song's at Number One
Though is it nice
To give advice
To say that girls need hitting?
"Tack my stitch up."
Auntie beams
And gets on with her knitting
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