Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
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| "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" | ||
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| Song by Pink Floyd | ||
| from the album The Final Cut | ||
| Released | March 21, 1983 (UK) April 2, 1983 (US) |
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| Recorded | July-December 1982 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock | |
| Length | ~1:19 | |
| Label | Harvest Records (UK) Capitol Records (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Roger Waters | |
| Producer(s) | Roger Waters, James Guthrie and Michael Kamen | |
| The Final Cut track listing | ||
| Paranoid Eyes (7) |
"Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert" (8) |
The Fletcher Memorial Home (9) |
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album, The Final Cut. It was never performed live by the band, though it's been played at nearly every live performance Roger Waters has played since 1987, often as a medley with "Southampton Dock." It was featured in said medley on Roger Waters's live DVD In the Flesh Live.
The song references the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands War:
- Brezhnev took Afghanistan, Begin took Beirut
- Galtieri took the Union Jack
- And Maggie, over lunch one day, took a cruiser with all hands
- Apparently to make him give it back.
Despite the lyrics, only 323 of the Belgrano's crew were lost; 770 survivors were rescued.
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