DIRTY JOB

A dirty job for you to do the many to support the few

For a hundred years there’s work to do in mine and yard and mill

The scarlet banners raised on high bloody red against the sky

And round the pit head children cry for men a mile below

Ch : From the furnace blast to the mining town

From the shipyards ring to the fishing ground

From the railway yard to the woollen town

That’s not the job for you that’s not the job for you

To think of the private son the owner the banker the number one

Where did all his money come the truth was clear to you

Workers of the world unite side by side to fight the fight the fight

In frozen yard and icy night those men will see it through

To think of the child that’s ill never of the doctor’s bill

We’ve no idea we never will of the price that must be paid

And twice in the last century the poorest bloody infantry

And women in the factories a dirty job to do

This was the story of the age newly known as heritage

I never had to take the cage a dirty job to do

A hundred feet above the Wear before the lads you show no fear

Walk the girder if you dare a dirty job to do

And many families looked and saw the dirty jobs and vowed and swore

That s not for me any more and they left it all behind

And changes in technology in health and wealth society

Changed our working history and which of us will mourn


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