These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in Morrissey's "World Peace Is None Of Your Business" album. Additions to the printed lyrics are in darker text while omissions are striken out.

World peace is none of your business
you must not tamper with arrangements
work hard and sweetly pay your taxes ¹
never asking "what for?"
ooh you poor little fool
oh you fool ²
world peace is none of your business
police will stun you with their stun-guns
or they'll disable you with tasers
that's what government's for
ooh you poor little fool
oh you fool ³
world peace is none of your business
so would you kindly keep your nose out
the rich must profit and get richer
and the poor must stay poor ⁴
ooh you poor little fool
oh you fool ⁵

each time you vote
you support the process
each time you vote ⁶
you support the process
each time you vote
you support the process
Brazil and Bahrain
Egypt, Ukraine
so many people in pain

No more "you poor little fool" ⁷
no more "you fool."

 

² In the spoken word version of the song used for its video, Morrissey repeated "Oh you poor little fool".

³ In the spoken word version of the song used for its video, Morrissey skipped this line.

⁴ In the spoken word version of the song used for its video, Morrissey followed this line with a repeat of "That's what government's for".

⁵ In the spoken word version of the song used for its video, Morrissey repeated "You poor little fool".

⁶ In the spoken word version of the song used for its video, Morrissey replaced this line and its three subsequent ones with "Every time you vote / You support this process".

⁷ In the spoken word version of the song used for its video, Morrissey replaced this line and the following one with "But no more poor little fool / No more poor little fool".