The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2385 Message #74188
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Apr-99 - 09:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mademoiselle from Armentières
Subject: Mademoiselle from Armentieres
There's also a labor version: The bosses are taking it on the chin...
because the strikers won't give in.
The scabs are having a heck of a time...
trying to cross the picket line.
The boss is shaking at the knees...
He's shaking in his B.V.D.'s
We're going to win the union shop...
We'll clean the floor wiht a union mop.
We're staying on the picket line...
until we get the boss to sign
(source: Songs of Work and Protest, Edith Fowke & Joe Glazer, 1960)
-Joe Offer-