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No. 4 - Song - Slinks and Chorus of Men
| Slinks: | We're a lot of lazy loafers, Oh! we recognize it's true; But it isn't that we're idle — If you knew our point of view. No! we'd gladly work all day and night, But we've got no work to do. |
| Men: | But we've got no work to do. |
| Slinks: | We've sometimes nearly got a job, But it's pass'd on to a pal; We'd like to do some flirting But we haven't got a gal! We'd love to catch a fish, But there's no fish in the Canal! |
| Men: | No fish in the Canal! |
| Slinks: | We're a lot of lazy loafers, Yes, of that we're well aware; We would work for next to nothing, But we feel it isn't fair. And if you knew us better, There's a fact you can't avoid, There is no one quite as busy As the lazy unemployed! |
| Men: | We're a lot of lazy loafers, Yes, of that we're well aware; We would work for next to nothing, But we feel it isn't fair. And if you knew us better, There's a fact you can't avoid, There is no one quite as busy As the lazy unemployed! |
| Slinks: | Now one day we really thought We'd got a job — well, half-a-crown, From an English toff who turned up With his motor broken down; And he gave us all a guilder If we'd push it through the town. |
| Men: | If we'd push it through the town. |
| Slinks: | I was just a-going to push, With all the strength I'd ever known, When the blessed artful motor Started moving on its own; And I lost the job, the guilder, Yes, and half my collarbone! |
| Men: | And half his collarbone! |
| Slinks: | We're a lot of lazy loafers, Yes, of that we're well aware; For we haven't got a thing Except a lot of open air. But if you knew us better, There's a fact you can't avoid, We'd not be half so healthy If we weren't so unemployed! |
| Men: | We're a lot of lazy loafers, Yes, of that we're well aware; For we haven't got a thing Except a lot of open air. But if you knew us better, There's a fact you can't avoid, We'd not be half so healthy If we weren't so unemployed! |
| Slinks: | Oh, in England, so they tell us, Nice processions are allowed. The authorities are kind to them, And do them mighty proud; They provide them with policemen, To protect them from the crowd. |
| Men: | To protect them from the crowd. |
| Slinks: | Then they've got a lovely workhouse, Just the place for you and me, Where the guardians are millionaires, As gen'rous as can be; And there's hock for lunch, and watercress, And jam and shrimps for tea! |
| Men: | And jam and shrimps for tea! |
| Slinks: | They're a lot of lazy loafers, Oh, of that we're well aware; You can see them with collecting boxes Marching round a square. If we only had a bowler, And a shirt of celluloid, Into Parliament we'd get And be for ever unemployed! |
| Men: | They're a lot of lazy loafers, Oh, of that we're well aware; You can see them with collecting boxes Marching round a square. If we only had a bowler, And a shirt of celluloid, Into Parliament we'd get And be for ever unemployed! |
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Page modified 25 January 2017