Lyr Req: Nothing for Free (Sandra Kerr)

Subject: Lyr Req: There's Nothing For Free
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 21 Nov 02 - 01:44 PM

I've been asked to try to find this song. It is vaguely familiar, perhaps from the sixties. Can't find anything in the DT, the forum, or via Google. Some of the lyrics:

My old man works for the council, gets twenty-four quid a week
And with four nippers and another on the way, it's hard to make ends meet
So I gets this form from the FIS down at the CAB
And I sends it off to the old SS and they sends some back to me

(Chorus):
Red ones, pink ones, covered in print ones
Forms that last for ages...

Can anyone help please?

Joan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Nothing For Free
From: khandu
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 07:46 PM

I have looked and looked, Joan, but I have nothing to show for it. I'll look again!

khandu

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Nothing For Free
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 23 Nov 02 - 05:37 PM

Thank you for looking, khandu.

Joan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Nothing For Free
From: Max
Date: 18 Apr 10 - 06:49 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Nothing For Free
From: MartinRyan
Date: 18 Apr 10 - 06:53 PM

Try HERE for openers.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Nothing For Free
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 02:09 PM

I have the lyrics and will type up and fowrard to you. I used to sing it a lot and it has been updated a few times but will send the original.

Marion

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Nothing For Free
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 07:27 PM

I think it's a good idea to have the information posted here, so it will be available permanently, even if the link goes dead.

Copied from The Folk Song Index: An Oberlin College Libraries & Sing Out! Collaboration:

Title: NOTHING FOR FREE
First line of verse: My old man works for the council
First line of chorus: Some red one, pink ones, covered in
Composer: Kerr, Sandra
Book ID: 107
Page Number: 175

Found in
Title: My Song Is My Own; 100 Women's Songs.
Author(s): Henderson, Kathy / Armstrong, Frankie / Kerr, Sandra
Place: London, England
Publisher: Pluto Press Limited
Year: 1979
Contents: Includes Index, Bibliography, Photographs
Includes Music: Yes
Bibliographic Source: 7581973
ISBN: 0-86104-033-3