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28 Mar 13 - 08:11 AM (#3495902) Subject: New Bedroom Tax Song From: GUEST,Fred McCormick 'catters opposed to the bedroom tax may want to cop a load of this . |
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28 Mar 13 - 09:40 AM (#3495938) Subject: RE: New Bedroom Tax Song From: GUEST From the YouTube link posted by Fred. A song about the Bedroom Tax, written for the demos all over the UK on Saturday 30th March, 2013, the Glasgow one in particular. Set to the tune of 1960's folk song "The Jeely Piece Song", by Scottish singer-songwriter Adam McNaugton. LYRICS I'm a welfare state wean, we live on the bottom flair But we're no allowed to even live there any mair. They say we've got too many rooms, in our social rented flat We've an eight by ten foot boxroom where you cannae swing a cat Chorus: Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that They say "live in a smaller house", they say that is their plan When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one Noo ma auntie's in a wheelchair, but these Tories dinna care They say they have a deficit, she got to pay her share £60 a month they'll take, then leave her tae her fate Whilst gieing millionaires a tax cut, cause they say they're due a break Noo that Buckingham Palace looks a pretty roomy gaff And the ludger there gets benefits at rates that make me laugh A civil list, plus tax perks, near a £100 million pounds While her other dozen palaces l ye empty a' year round Noo those MPs doon in Westminster must think that we're 'a dense Wi their second home apartments, where the public pays their rent They're even get a food allowance, two hundred quid a week But they're claiming we're the scroungers, is their arse up in their cheeks? So we've formed a Federation and we're gonna have our say The Bedroom Tax it has to go, and we ain't gonna pay We're gonna march on London tae demand our civil rights Like nae mair Tories and their Liberal shite |
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28 Mar 13 - 12:52 PM (#3496009) Subject: RE: New Bedroom Tax Song From: GUEST,Fred McCormick Thanks Guest. I forgot about that bit. I will be at the Liverpool demo on Saturday and hopefully singing it. If I can get the thing knocked into English, that is. |
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28 Mar 13 - 02:31 PM (#3496043) Subject: RE: New Bedroom Tax Song From: Rumncoke Good one - my neighbour has a three bedroom house - it was the one her parents moved into when they were married, just after the last war. She is a grandmother now, her daughter and partner have five children in a small flat so she can't visit them, but they can come to visit her because she has the spare rooms. She will, of course be forced to leave the only home she has ever known, and have to find a place for her and her cat close to her daughter and grandchildren, so she will have to leave her job in the geriatrics ward. The landlord will then convert her house into single room accommodation for other people forced out of homes which are considered too big for their needs. Great way to put a lot of people out of work and on even more benefits than they were entitled to when they were working. |
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28 Mar 13 - 03:19 PM (#3496062) Subject: RE: New Bedroom Tax Song From: GUEST I once mentioned to John MacKenzie that I'd heard if ya wake up a Scotsman at 3:00 in the morning he'd talk just like a Canadian. Believe me, I know what you mean. Hope it goes well, Fred, and good on you for doing the demo. A friend and I are intending to get the following on YouTube in the next six weeks or so. BEGONE, BEGONE YOU NEOCONS by Blind Boy Stump with Scratcher Itch and the Strings Begone, begone you neocons and take your billionaires I have watched you from the moment of my birth I have seen the riches that your corporate sons-of-bitches have Stolen from the children of this Earth You've taken from the weak, the lame The voiceless ones who have no name The quiet ones you've murdered over time I hope you rot in darkest hell And if you ever hear the bell It tolls for you and all your sordid crime I see justice standing proud I hear freedom singing loud In a voice complete with deep devotion We shall ride the wind Unchained once again Free as the sunlight on the ocean Begone, begone you neocons and take your armies too I have watched you from the moment of my birth I've seen the desolation that you bring upon our nations The lives you ruin through greed, through lack of worth I've watched you manufacture wars That's what the body-bags are for There's better ways to leave no child behind I truly have come to believe In a very simple litany You're selling war and mister I ain't buyin' I see justice standing proud I hear freedom singing loud In a voice complete with deep emotion We shall ride the wind Unchained once again Free as the sunlight on the ocean © I'll be giving the song away to anyone who wants to do it although I expect I'll get few requests to use it. However, one does what one can. Keep well and sing loud. |
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28 Mar 13 - 03:33 PM (#3496068) Subject: RE: New Bedroom Tax Song From: Jim McLean Great song, Fred. |