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Tony Norwell Miscellaneous Tressell of Mugsborough Tressell of Mugsborough June 1983 (can be sung to the tune of ‘Come All Ye Tramps And Hawkers’ – or – ‘The Durham Strike’) In the town of Mugsborough we’re sorry for to say – The Workers are still sweating hard for a pittance they call ‘pay’; It’s nigh on a hundred years now since Robert Tressell’s day – 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 – the media have us all so well ruled! It makes you sick the way they grovel and the way they drool – On folk like Mrs. Thatcher – who’re so vicious and so cruel. There’s so much work that needs to be done to meet with human need – But many of us don’t have enough even to clothe and feed. They’ve forced the dole queue on us as a way of keeping down Our wages that we spend to keep the wheel of life going round. The ‘jobless’ have to search each day for ‘work’ to do while still – There’s so much work needs doing - using all our sweat and skill. We’re stopped from doing useful work that’s needed to be done – While so much ‘work’ that’s done - today’s no use to anyone. We wish that Robert Tressell could come back to us today – He’d be surprised to find we haven’t yet all changed the way – We run our crazy system so that people’s wants and needs – Are still not satisfied (be)cause of the ruling class’s greed. Through this whole world over we’re still sorry for to say – The workers all still listen to the rot the Tories say. We wish a lad like Robbie Tressell’d come to us again – And that his life and work have not been totally in vain. |
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