Tony Norwell – Tressell Of Mugsborough lyrics

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.