Tressell of Mugsborough June 1983
(can be sung to the tune of
In the town of Mugsborough - we're sorry for to say
The Workers are still sweating hard for a pittance they call
It
And yet well nearly all support this system in some way.
We need not state the reasons why the workers have been fooled
The Tory Press
It makes you sick the way they grovel and the way they drool
On folk like Mrs. Thatcher
There
But many of us don
They
Our wages that we spend to keep the wheel of life going round.
The
There
We
While so much
We wish that Robert Tressell could come back to us today
He
We run our crazy system so that people
Are still not satisfied (be)cause of the ruling cla**
Through this whole world over we
The workers all still listen to the rot the Tories say.
We wish a lad like Robbie Tressell
And that his life and work have not been totally in vain.