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05-09-2009, 08:02 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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A Stroll On The Dole
They sent me away for a stroll on the dole,
On a downhill road, hard as flints; Onwards and downwards for mile after mile, Finding it harder and harder to smile; Down to the bottom of life's midden pile Where I caught a bad dose of the skints. A dose of the skints is a terrible thing; It's worse than a dose of the pox. It gets in your pockets, it gets up your nose; Sometimes your elbows and often your toes Come popping out of your sleeve or your shoe Releasing the pong in your socks. Down here at the bottom things always get worse With never a hint of things better. They wonder why we make such a big fuss It's not happening to them, it's happening to us, When things collapse they collapse on us; With the law stamping hard on the debtor. In our impotent rage we look up to the top We see gluttony bulging from wallets So full that they're bursting with ill-gotten gains With so much to spare that it's running down drains All nicked off the workers along with their brains While the rest of the world's eating bullets. Now Ive strolled down this road for a year and a day I'm a long-term unemployed But the road back up is a hell of a climb And many like me are turning to crime Getting arrested and doing their time And becoming more than annoyed. So don't let them send you away down that road Or the rest of your life will turn sour For it's coming to you as it came to me They're not going to stop at millions three You think you're safe? Don't wait and see. Fight back, while you've still got the powere |
05-09-2009, 08:20 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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A Wee Singul Skinner
A Wee Singul Skinner
by Colin Cameron I love it when a Monday comes And I gang intae toon Tae cash ma pension, dae the shops An tak a look aroon The price o awthin's gawin up But it disnae get me doon Ah hae a wee singul skinner As ah tootle roon the toon. A wee singul skinner as ye tootle roon the toon A wee singul skinner as ye tootle roon the toon The price o awthin's goin up Don't let it get ye doon Jist hae a wee singul skinner As ye tootle roon the toon. I grew a couple grass plants Cos it's cheaper Well, it's free I got the seeds frae Thai grass That wir dealer selt tae me It's tasty, it's the berries And it's very plain to see Wir dealer gets the best o gear Tae punt tae yooz n me. So I grew ma few wee grass plants And looked forward tae the crop When in burst ten policemen Who said, "You'll huff tae stoap" They took me tae the Sheriff And I said, "It's for the pain". Sheriff Evans said, "OK then. But don't come back again". A wee singul skinner as ye tootle roon the toon A wee singul skinner as ye tootle roon the toon The price o awthin's goin up Don't let it get ye doon Jist hae a wee singul skinner As ye tootle roon the toon. I grew some mair the next year Cos I wiz still in pain The polis came an huckled me I said "No not again!" George Evans winked, "I sympathise" And asked me "Where's the pain?". "It's in ma bloody neck", ah sez "they've busted me again!" The Sheriff looked across at me His face a furrowed froon "I have no choice about it. Yer fined a hundred poon" "I'll no be payin that" I thought. "They'll have tae hunt me doon". So I left the court, lit up a joint And tootled roon the toon A wee singul skinner as ye tootle roon the toon A wee singul skinner as ye tootle roon the toon The price o awthin's goin up Don't let it get ye doon Jist hae a wee singul skinner As ye tootle roon the toon. I didnae pay a penny So I knew that they would freak It widnae tak them long tae hiv me Up before the beak They took me to the Means Court And said, "A pound a week" And if I didnae pay it I'd be really up the creek. I didnae pay that either. I was really in a mess. I waited for the door to knock Each day was full of stress But I couldnae see why I should pay Because, you must confess That grass as medication Should be on the NHS. A wee singul skinner as ye tootle roon the toon A wee singul skinner as ye tootle roon the toon The price o awthin's goin up Don't let it get ye doon Jist hae a wee singul skinner As ye tootle roon the toon. Then a mystery benefactor Came knocking at my door. He said he’d pay my fine for me. I couldnae ask for more. It made headlines in the papers That I’d escaped the jail, Which only goes to show you Solidarity cannae fail. So I dinnae grow the grass nae mair Tho ma back is ayeways sair I buy it frae the dealers But it costs me ten times mair The price o dope keeps gawin up Don't let it get ye doon Jist hae a wee singul skinner As ye tootle roon the toon A wee singul skinner As ye tootle roon the toon A wee singul skinner As ye tootle roon the toon The price of awthin's goin up Don't let it get ye doon Jist hae a wee singul skinner As ye tootle roon the toon. |
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