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Boys in Blue

We are the boys in blue
We work here, and we live here too
We build your villas, we lay your roads
We wash your cars, and haul your loads

We work long hours, for miserly pay
We earn in a month what you earn in a day
We have no rights and we have no say
You shut us out and you turn us away

You say we're dirty, you say we stare
You say we're shabby, whatever we wear
You throw us out of your shopping malls
You don't want to look at us at all

But you wouldn't like it, one little bit
If we weren't around to shovel your shit
Deny it, but you know it's true
Because we are the boys in blue


Originally posted 31st July 2006
in response to labourers being banned from shopping malls







Fabric of society

Dark dawn of Gitex

Week in limericks

Boys in blue

Our favourite things

Sun sonnet

Beating the rap

Driving song

Song of sandlands

Betty boycotts butter

Bridge gridlock