Chumbawamba Lyrics

*  Dutiful Servants And Political Masters

One, two, one, two, three, four 
Things were rather different in great grandfather's day 
He just put a chain around their ankles and made them work for no pay 
He took everything they owned and yet still demanded more 
He did a bloody good job in taming the poor 
Now I'm rather more subtle, I say, I'll tell you what I will do 
I'll do everything I can to try and help you 
And you'll be helping me, I say, and I'll see that you're alright 
You can have a place of your own, you can even pretend to be white 
And you won't have to worry, I'll have a quiet word with your mates 
Oh they'll be alright, they'll have enough on their plate 
I'll put a bit in their mouths, you just pull hard on the reins 
They'll do anything for you and they won't complain 
You'll be so much better off, I say, you can share my paradise 
Just sign my piece of paper and I'll organize your life 
And it never fails, it does the trick, it works every time 
So me and my dear wife and the family's doing fine 
Great granddad got his dukedom when slavery was abolished 
Dear old dad became a viscount when the Empire was finished 
But times have changed for the better with freedom of choice 
We're a thousand times richer, QED His Master's Voice 

A dog stares into a gramophone trumpet, waits for its call to action 
Mute and obedient, standing to attention 
Look a little closer, the dog is a woman 
She's working under a system that she can't understand 
Trapped inside a world of labor and heat 
So that she and her children will be able to eat 
The trumpet is patriarchy, it's old and fixed 
Where poor men are lured by desire to be rich 
Where the limited power is still given to men 
Where development aid is so wastefully spent 
Where western education enforces this crap 
Where women work in the open, yet live in a trap 
There's one solution, and this is it 
The dog leaps on the gramophone and has a shit

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