Oh, as I was in the garden
I was planting out me beans 
The sky betook an awful shade, 
The queerest what I’d seen
So I asked me next-door neighbour
"am I going off me head?"
He says, "oh no, it's just the same
Like nostradamus said"
Well the year was ninety-nine 
And we had watched the systems fail,
Extinction of the species
And the hunting of the whale;
Oh the wise men and the prophets
They had talked of turning back,
But sad to say, too late
As all the crust began to crack.

Chorus
Wake up, you lazy bum,
For if you don't slow down
You'll never get to see
The third millennium

Oh the farmer and his wife
Have tried to save the human race,
But the butcher is a murderer
With no redeeming grace,
When the revolution came
It was a party to the fall;
We left the land to reap the gold
And rape the earth of all.
Oh me heart is full of sorrow
As I cast me eyes about; the people are so weary
Where they used to sing and shout,
Well, it's really not surprising
That disease is still so rife
Their aching limbs atrophy
While they lead an easy life

(chorus)

Well this song was writ in heaven
As is plain enough to see
Me mates have gone the other way -
They won't be joining me.
With their pockets full of money
They could not get through the door.
I had taken out insurance 
In the form of being poor

(chorus)
The third millennium