Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl - Only doing their job

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  • Опубликовано: 5 дек 2011
  • extrait du LP " Item of News", Blackthorne Records, 1986, BR 1067.
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  • @a.e.m.1452
    @a.e.m.1452 5 лет назад +44

    If there's anyone there has a moment to spare
    And can give undivided attention I'd be grateful if you'd give a minute a two
    And consider some points I would mention
    There are slanderous tongues always ready to wrong
    And murder the fine reputation Of the lads with big feet who by pounding the beat
    Are protecting the peace of the nation
    There are shortsighted folks who insist that these blokes
    Are just uniformed masters of thuggery
    There can be no dispute if they didn't put the boot in
    The country would soon go to buggery
    So try and keep calm when they're twisting your arm
    Or planting a fist in your gum
    When they're giving you hell in a cold prison cell
    They're only just doing their job When Hitler and Co. were running the show
    Assisted by Germany's coppers If a nose was too big or a mind was too active Its owner was sure of the chopper
    Socialists, Communists, Jews and trades unionists Landed up dead or in quod
    And the police were in there of course doing their share
    But they were just doing their job
    Il Duce the bully and Franco his collegue
    Both loaded their countries with chains
    And in the front ranks of these two mountebanks
    Were the police of both Italy and Spain
    In South Africa, El Salvador, Guatemala
    Where they call working people 'the mob' The screams and the yells from the punishment cells Show the police are just doing their job
    If you're black or just brown, if you're jobless and down
    If you speak for a world which is saner If you stand up and fight for what's yours by right
    If you're an anti-nuclear campaigner
    Remember the chap in the comical hat Is one of humanity's crosses
    Wherever there's trouble, whatever the struggle
    He'll be on the side of the bosses

    • @stephenmcwilliams5842
      @stephenmcwilliams5842 3 месяца назад

      Lovely. "slanderous tongues always ready to wrong " --> "slanderous tongues ever ready to wrong".

  • @BohFra
    @BohFra 3 года назад +5

    Love you from Italy ❤🇮🇹

  • @diestormlie
    @diestormlie 4 года назад +16

    Oh course, the Police was, and is, never "just a job." The Police, and thus the Police Officer, is the Coercive power of the State made manifest.

  • @3DDoor
    @3DDoor 9 лет назад +11

    sharp sarcasm, thanks for the upload

  • @blixer8384
    @blixer8384 4 года назад +24

    Well this is relevant again. But was it ever irrelevant to begin with?

  • @martymart8897
    @martymart8897 4 года назад +1

    Wow