Legal...Illegal, little political ditty, sung by a lovely Irish Lass

[ProfessionalLeftist]

Run time: 03:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkHwkRfsqBQ   Posted on YouTube: May 05, 2009 By YouTube Member: pddybrry Views on YouTube: 9897   Posted on DU: April 17, 2011 By DU Member: ProfessionalLeftist Views on DU: 564

 
I know DUers will appreciate the song. Here are the lyrics:

Legal Illegal

Every time you pick up a newspaper,
Every time you switch on the T.V.,
You can bet your old boots that at some point you'll see,
A high ranking Garda or else a T.D.
Calling on all who are meant to be free,
To stand up and defend law and order.

It's illegal to rip off a payroll,
It's illegal to hold up a train,
But it's legal to rip off a million or two,
That comes from the labour that other folk do,
To plunder the many on behalf of the few,
Is a thing that is perfectly legal.

It's illegal to kill off your landlord
Or to trespass upon his estate
But to charge a high rent for a slum is O.K.
To condemn two adults and three children to stay
In a hovel that's rotten with damp and decay
It's a thing that is perfectly legal.

If your job turns you into a zombie
Then it's legal to feel some despair
But don't get agressive and don't get too smart
For Christ's sake don't upset the old applecart
Remember you boss has your interest at heart
And it grieves him to see you unhappy.

If you fashion a bomb in your kitchen,
You're guilty of breaking the law,
But a bloody great nuclear plant is O.K.,
And plutonium processing hastens the day,
This small little isle will be blasted away,
Nonetheless it is perfectly legal.

It's illegal if you are a traveller,
To camp by the side of the road,
But it's proper and right for the rich and the great,
To live in a mansion or own an estate,
That was got from the people by pillage and rape,
That is what they call a tradition.

It's illegal to kill off your missus,
Or put poison in your old man's tea,
But poison the river's the seas or the skies,
And poison the minds of a nation with lies,
It's all in the interest of free enterprise,
Nonetheless it's perfectly legal.

Well it's legal to sing on the telly,
But make bloody sure that you don't,
To sing about racists and fascists and creeps,
And those in high places who live off the weak,
And those who are selling us right up the creek,
The twisters, the takers, the conmen, the fakers,
The whole bloody gang of exploiters.

[Cleita]

1. God love the Irish for zeroing in on an issue and

framing it in poetry.

[Karenina]

3. +1

[sabrina 1]

2. This should be the anthem for people everywhere.

Nice to see an anti-exploitation song. There are so few, hopefully this will inspire more.

[xchrom]

4. ...

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[bobbyjoe102]

5. Frances Black

Thats Frances Black great singer.
Here she is at an anti-austerity protest in Dublin singing the same song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0R3BVtMkc