Get Your Filthy Hands off My Desert

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“Get Your Filthy Hands off My Desert”
Song by Pink Floyd
Album	The Final Cut
Released	March 21, 1983 (UK) April 2, 1983 (US)
Recorded	July-December 1982
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	~1:19
Label	Harvest Records (UK) Capitol Records (US)
Writer	Roger Waters
Producer	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.

Sound effects employed, a similar effect in this song was later used as a segue on Roger Water's 1992 solo album Amused to Death, branching the two part song "Late Home Tonight." The lyrics list a number of world leaders and conflicts they have been involved in, including most starkly Margaret Thatcher and the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano.

[edit] Personnel

• Roger Waters – Vocals and Tape effects
• David Gilmour – Guitar

with:

• Michael Kamen – Orchestrations