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The NHS is our heartbeat, our life support machine, our 21st century iron lung. It's 24/7 non stop, every day is a long day - it's full of the most dedicated, hardworking people who care for us - who are there for us through good and bad, birth and death. The most important thing, the easiest, simple yet effective, human thing we can do as individuals and as the collective that is 'The General Public', is to acknowledge this with a 'Thank you'.
The vehicle for this is this song.
The featured guests are: Johnny Vegas, Shaun Ryder, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Mike Sweeney, Sadie Frost, Mickey Kerr, The Little Belters, Gaina Williams, Stuart Armstrong, Connor Wilde, Tom Bleasby, the strings, orchestration and keys of Mel Purves & Phil Gregory and Gary Hilton & Steve Southern.
We have tried to take 2 wonderful songs -The Kinks "Days" and The Scaffold's "Thank You Very Much" and produce a fun yet grown up piece of pop music: "Thank U NHS" by "The General Public" - delivering a multitude of thank you's and a rallying call to say "we bless you" and "we will fight for you" and we "Thank you!"
lyrics
Thank you very much for curing my stammer
Thank you very much for treating my dear ma
Thank you very much for treating my asthma
Thank you very much for beating my cancer
Thank you for the…
Days we’ll remember all our lives
Days you helped us all survive
You’ve changed our lives
You’ve changed our lives and saved our lives believe us
And we’ll all fight
And we’ll all fight to make sure that you never leave us
Thank you very much for fixing my shoulder
Thanks for treating my bipolar
Thank you very much for treating my arthritis
My bronchitis
Appendicitis
Days we’ll remember all our lives
Days you helped us all survive
You’ve changed our lives
You’ve changed our lives and saved our lives believe us
And we’ll all fight
And we’ll all fight to make sure that you never leave us
Dayyyys
Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave us
We’re thinking of the days
We won’t forget a single day believe us
We bless the light
We bless the light that shines from you believe us
From A&Es
To surgeries and pharmacies believe us
Thank you very much for delivering my daughters
Thank you very much to the hospital porters
Thanks for saving Uncle Sidney
Thank you very much for my new kidney
Thanks to the nurses on intensive care
Thank you very much, thank you very veryverymuch
Thanks to everybody who works there
Thank you very veryveryveryveryveryvery
Days we’ll remember all our lives
Days you helped us all survive
You’ve changed our lives
You’ve changed our lives and saved our lives believe us
And we’ll all fight
And we’ll all fight to make sure that you never leave us
Dayyyys
Thank you for the days
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave us
We’re thinking of the days
We won’t forget a single day believe us
We bless the light
We bless the light that shines from you believe us
From A&Es
To maternity and our GPs believe us
credits
released December 15, 2017
Lyricist: Raymond Douglas Davies, Mike McGear, Adam Kay, Gary Hilton & Steve Southern
Composer: Raymond Douglas Davies, Mike McGear, Gary Hilton & Steve Southern
Mixer: Gary Hilton and Steve Southern
Producer: Gary Hilton and Steve Southern
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