Butlins (also Butlin's) is a chain of large holiday camps in the United Kingdom. Butlins was founded by Billy Butlin to provide affordable holidays for ordinary British families.
Between 1936 and 1966, ten camps were built, including one in Ireland and one in The Bahamas. In the 1970s and 1980s Butlins also operated numerous large hotels including one in Spain, a number of smaller holiday parks in England and France, and a revolving restaurant in the Post Office Tower in London.
Tough competition from overseas package holiday operators, rising operational costs, and rapidly changing demand forced many of these to close in the 1980s and 1990s. Three of the original camps remain open under the Butlins' brand in Bognor Regis, Minehead and Skegness. They are now owned and run by Butlins Skyline Ltd a subsidiary company of Bourne Leisure Ltd which also operates other leisure brands in the UK including Warner Leisure Hotels and Haven Holidays.
Butlins runs a variety of "family fun activities" and entertainments, many of which are included in the price of a holiday. Redcoats provide entertainment, organise activities, and act as hosts.
Deep slumber awakened by sirens
I realize life's been thrown to the lions
What I saw last night, our city's gone mad
And to my horror, the bloody town square
The time is now, we must avenge
We form tonight, we kill tonight
We must rest to regain our strength
We form tonight, we kill tonight
Tell all your (something) surrounding the back
In the night we'll attack with no questions of mercy
We'll take all they have and we'll drive them before us
Hear lamentations of women who cry for the loved ones we crush to (oblivion??)
Gather all survivors, the forces retreat
They never see the troopers in the streets
Surprise attack with no destination
What will we do with a steam- (something) nation
Death to come for what they've done
Snap their backs, their necks will crack
Stronger than ever, our guns held high
Snap their backs, their necks will crack
The people have organized an army of vengeance
Struck out now, the bodies just like remnants
Don't you love living like a shark(?????)
Marching through the gates of fire
New battles on the rise
Breathing in the winds of war
Victorious desire deep inside
Tyrants' wrath upon this world
Bestow the might to throne
Battalions on the fields of war
To chaos we are bound
Nameless cities left behind
High fires in the air
Fear us those whose time has come
Awaiting in despair
Fury swings its blackened blades
From the sky a fire rain
Darkness marches on this night
On pride we fight
With the dying sun we ride
Into the honored age
Searching for the golden past
Bounded deep with rage
Magic moments magic times
Barbarians born to stride
Ride with splendor for the war
Battalions at our side
Fury swings its blackened blades
From the sky a fire rain
Darkness marches on this night
On pride we fight
Stories tel of fallen men
Great voctories and fights
And all that rode towards te fields
To conquer thrones and might
Legends brought forward to tell
Tempting from another time
Devoted to the victories
They batlled for themselves
Battalions
With a knick-knack patty-whack talkin to you
Were gonna stop with the others and stop to think about
Nothin here and nothin to say so
We gotta leave, were gonna go now
If youve got something to do
With all the other pumps in there
Now put your hands in the air and shake it
As were gonna go now
Youve got something to say
With all the other pumps in there
Now put your bottlenose in the air
Here we go now
Gonna rock ya
And Im sayin
What we do now
If youve got something to do
With all the other Pumps in there
Now put your hands in the air and shake it
As were gonna go now
If youve got something to say
With all the other pumps in there
Not put your bottlenose in the air Yeah
With a Knick-knack patty-whack talkin to you
Were gonna stop with the others and stop to think about
Nothin here and nothin to say so
We gotta leave, were gonna go now
Youve got something to do with all the other pumps in there
Now put your hands in the air and shake it
As were gonna go now
Youve got something to say
With all the other pumps in there
Now put your bottlenose in the air Yeah
Here we go now
Gonna rock ya
And theyre sayin
Marching through the gates of fire
New battles on the rise
Breathing in the winds of war
Victorious desire deep inside
Tyrants' wrath upon this world
Bestow the might to throne
Battalions on the fields of war
To chaos we are bound
Nameless cities left behind
High fires in the air
Fear us those whose time has come
Awaiting in despair
Fury swings its blackened blades
From the sky a fire rain
Darkness marches on this night
On pride we fight
With the dying sun we ride
Into the honored age
Searching for the golden past
Bounded deep with rage
Magic moments magic times
Barbarians born to stride
Ride with splendor for the war
Battalions at our side
Fury swings its blackened blades
From the sky a fire rain
Darkness marches on this night
On pride we fight
Stories tel of fallen men
Great victories and fights
And all that rode towards the fields
To conquer thrones and might
Legends brought forward to tell
Tempting from another time
Devoted to the victories
They battled for themselves
Battalions