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Bedroom Tax Song: You Cannae Have A Spare Room in a Pokey Cooncil Flat
- Published_at:2013-03-27
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:Citizen Smart
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- description: LYRICS AND INFO A song about the Bedroom Tax, written for the demos all over the UK on Saturday 30th March, 2013, the Glasgow one in particular. Set to the tune of 1960's folk song "The Jeely Piece Song", by Scottish singer-songwriter Adam McNaugton. LYRICS I'm a welfare state wean, we live on the bottom flair But we're no allowed to even live there any mair. They say we've got too many rooms, in our social rented flat We've an eight by ten foot boxroom where you cannae swing a cat Chorus: Oh ye canna have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat Ian Duncan Smith and Co have put an end tae that They say "live in a smaller house", they say that is their plan When the odds against you finding one are ninety-nine to one Noo ma auntie's in a wheelchair, but these Tories dinna care They say they have a deficit, she got to pay her share £60 a month they'll take, then leave her tae her fate Whilst gieing millionaires a tax cut, cause they say they're due a break Noo that Buckingham Palace looks a pretty roomy gaff And the ludger there gets benefits at rates that make me laugh A civil list, plus tax perks, near a £100 million pounds While her other dozen palaces l ye empty a' year round Noo those MPs doon in Westminster must think that we're 'a dense Wi their second home apartments, where the public pays their rent They're even get a food allowance, two hundred quid a week But they're claiming we're the scroungers, is their arse up in their cheeks? So we've formed a Federation and we're gonna have our say The Bedroom Tax it has to go, and we ain't gonna pay We're gonna march on London tae demand our civil rights Like nae mair Tories and their Liberal shite
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