《Dutiful Servants & Political Masters》歌词

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Dutiful Servants & Political Masters - Chumbawamba[00:00:00]

One two one two three four[00:00:00]

Things were rather different in great grandfather's day[00:00:17]

He just put a chain around their ankles and made them work for no pay[00:00:20]

He took everything they owned and yet still demanded more[00:00:24]

He did a bloody good job in taming the poor[00:00:28]

Now I'm rather more subtle I say I'll tell you what I will do[00:00:31]

I'll do everything I can to try and help you[00:00:35]

And you'll be helping me I say and I'll see that you're alright[00:00:39]

You can have a place of your own you can even pretend to be white[00:00:43]

And you won't have to worry I'll have a quiet word with your mates[00:00:46]

Oh they'll be alright they'll have enough on their plate[00:00:50]

I'll put a bit in their mouths you just pull hard on the reins[00:00:53]

They'll do anything for you and they won't complain[00:00:57]

You'll be so much better off I say you can share my paradise[00:01:01]

Just sign my piece of paper and I'll organize your life[00:01:05]

And it never fails it does the trick it works every time[00:01:08]

So me and my dear wife and the family's doing fine[00:01:12]

Great granddad got his dukedom when slavery was abolished[00:01:16]

Dear old dad became a viscount when the Empire was finished[00:01:19]

But times have changed for the better with freedom of choice[00:01:23]

We're a thousand times richer QED His Master's Voice[00:01:26]

A dog stares into a gramophone trumpet waits for its call to action[00:01:36]

Mute and obedient standing to attention[00:01:39]

Look a little closer the dog is a woman[00:01:42]

She's working under a system that she can't understand[00:01:44]

Trapped inside a world of labor and heat[00:01:47]

So that she and her children will be able to eat[00:01:50]

The trumpet is patriarchy it's old and fixed[00:01:53]

Where poor men are lured by desire to be rich[00:01:55]

Where the limited power is still given to men[00:01:58]

Where development aid is so wastefully spent[00:02:01]

Where western education enforces this crap[00:02:04]

Where women work in the open yet live in a trap[00:02:06]

There's one solution and this is it[00:02:09]

The dog leaps on the gramophone and has a shit[00:02:11]

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