BLUE MURDER was written by Scottish singer-songwriter Alistair Hulett in the (lengthy) period when he was living in Australia.

I have the words on a tape by Kate Delaney and Gordon McIntyre and can put them up tomorrow (it's well after midnight and I'm tired). Might as well do them now-

They say it's easy money
In a full-page ad in the local rag,
Always nice and sunny.
Come on, lad, and pack your bag.

CHORUS: Day in, day out, every day they drive us harder.
Day in, day out, they're getting away with blue murder.

It's off to West Australia.
Leave the old hometown behind.
Be a winner, not a failure.
Money to be made in the Wittenoom mine. CHORUS

They took me to my quarters,
A stinking bed in an old tin shed.
Got my working orders,
A lamp, and a tin hat on my head. CHORUS

I feel my health is failing
Working down in the thick blue dust.
The kids play in the tailings.
The boss says work and work I must. CHORUS

The thick blue dust refers to asbestos and Alistair wrote a companion piece "He Fades Away" about the miner dying of asbestosis (however it's spelled).

Sandra

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