{"id":114,"date":"2016-10-05T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/fight-for-the-right-to-work\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T03:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:43:00","slug":"fight-for-the-right-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/fight-for-the-right-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight for the Right to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO WORK<\/b>
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry June 1976<\/p>\n

Couldn’t afford to pay the telly licence,
\nTelly man took the telly away.
\nThe Gasman knocked, tried to get in.
\nWe wouldn’t let him in, said he’d have to break in.
\nHe’d fetch in the police if we cause a breach of the peace.
\n“You can’t go using Gas if you can’t pay your bill,<\/i>
\nWhat does the boss care if you are unemployed or you’re ill”.<\/i><\/p>\n

Chorus
\nWe’ve got no rights, no job and the prices are high.<\/i>
\nIt’s fight just to live, something’s got to give.<\/i>
\nOut of work people fighting for their rights<\/i>
\nFighting for the rights of black and white.<\/i>
\nFighting for the right to work.<\/i><\/p>\n

When your dole runs out and related supplements cease.
\nIt’s on the SS that your living standards decrease.
\nCarpets worn thin, television gone,
\nThe kids have got next to nothing on.
\nNo prospects of work, you’re treated like dirt.
\nThe tension and humility break the family up.
\nYou’re nobody’s favourite, even hate yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n


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(Extra lyrics not on the video)<\/i><\/p>\n

Big boss man, he say to his workforce
\n‘More redundancies are in line of course<\/i>
\nCompany’s made a loss, we must cut the cost<\/i>‘
\nMen, women, white and black, ruthlessly get the sack.
\nWhile the firm supports its capital, evading tariffs and tax,
\nto another branch of their multinational firm
\nand they rid themselves of workers – like ‘Domestos gets rid of germs<\/i>‘.<\/p>\n

And those who are replaced by machines
\nFace speed ups and productivity deals.
\nThe unemployed, in reserve, are the back seat of the car
\nand the workers who produce the wealth are the engine of that car.
\nAnd the parasites use that power to steer the car to their own ends.
\nand its the engine that suffers when they steer the car off the road.<\/p>\n

The stock market idlers gamble their ill gotten gain,
\nWhile the unemployed are called scroungers for being maintained
\nEven though their rents are in arrears and they’re living one step up from the drain.
\nAnd for the bosses crisis they are taking the blame.
\nIf they can’t provide jobs and things that we need, then let their system perish,
\nwhy should we bleed!<\/span><\/p>\n


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Fight For the Right To Work by Trev Teasdel<\/div>\n

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