2004
| Tune: | Original |
| Lyrics: | Coope Boyes & Simpson |
| Composer: | Coope Boyes & Simpson |
Sampling Blake, this a capella group re-present the poet’s pastoral idyll as a burning house on a ‘doomed estate’, a ‘homeland for the homeless’, scarred by crime and brutal policing. With the ideal of Jerusalem overcome by greed, dark satanic banking mills threaten to loom for eternity. A hopeful closing note, however – and quotation of Parry’s 1916 tune – proposes bringing back ‘the voice of burning gold’ and collaborating, with ceaseless mental strife, to make Earth, not England, the promised land.
| Cause: | Anti-capitalist | Anti-militarist | Environmentalist |
| Theme: | Overview/England | Political Process |
| Addressed to: | Activists | English |
| Target of Protest: | Elected Representatives | Bosses |
| Proposal/Solution: | Organisation |