{"id":113,"date":"2016-10-05T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/unemployed-worker\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T03:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:48:00","slug":"unemployed-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/unemployed-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployed Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNEMPLOYED WORKER<\/span><\/b>
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry June 1976<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nHow easy it is when you are unemployed<\/span>
\nTo feel helpless and alone in your plight<\/span>
\nBeing in the doghouse each way that you turn<\/span>
\nKnowing well how it feels to be the one who’s never right<\/span>
\nCast into darkness without a guiding light.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nChorus<\/span>
\nUnemployed worker, unemployed man<\/span><\/i>
\nUnemployed woman, unemployed hands.<\/span><\/i>
\nDown on your luck, down at the heel<\/span><\/i>
\nJoin hands together, fight for a better deal.<\/span><\/i>
\n
<\/span>
\nCast out of work when the big boss man<\/span>
\nFeels that he no longer needs you.<\/span>
\nMade to fish for money in endless benefit offices<\/span>
\nThough the tiddlers you catch wouldn’t feed a cat.<\/span>
\nAnd you feel lost like a worn out shoe.<\/span>
\nAnd you just, you just don’t know what to do.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nMaybe you’ve a wife who does not understand<\/span>
\nJust why it is that you are an unemployed man<\/span>
\nMaybe you’ve a man who does not understand<\/span>
\nthat you’re a woman who likes to work just like a man.<\/span>
\nAnd your children are ragged and underfed.<\/span>
\nMaybe in shame you’ve both wished that you were dead.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nYour bills being big and your income small<\/span>
\nYou’ve sunk so low that you’ve no life left at all.<\/span>
\nTry and drown your blues with a little too much booze<\/span>
\nCigarettes, bingo and bets.<\/span>
\nJust as if the earth had moved from under your feet<\/span>
\nYou feel like rubble that once was a city street.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nMaybe the isolation, it tears at your heart<\/span>
\nHaving lost any meaning that life might have had.<\/span>
\nThis life of leisure, well it would not be so bad.<\/span>
\nIf the conditions endured were not so tragic and so sad.<\/span>
\nOnly way out of this plight is to join with the workers<\/span>
\nUnemployment to fight.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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