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Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger - Legal Illegal
CEvery time you pick Fup a newsCpaper Every Ftime you turn Con the TG7V You can Fbet your old Cboots that at Fsome point you'll Csee A high ranking Fcopper or Felse an MG7P CCalling on Fall who are FBritish and Cfree To stand up and deG7fend law and Corder
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 folks do To plunder the many on behalf of the few Is a thing that is perfectly legal It's illegal to kill off a landlord Or to trespass upon his estate But to charge a high rent for a slum is OK To condemn 2 adults and 3 children to stay In a hovel that's rotten with damp and decay Is 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 be aggressive that is if you're smart And for Christ's sake don't upset the old apple cart Remember the boss has your interests 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 OK Though plutonium processing hastens the day When this tiny little isle may be blasted away Nonetheless it is perfectly legal It's illegal if you are a Gypsy 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's what they call a tradition It's illegal to carve up your missus Or put poison in your old man's tea But poison the rivers, the seas and the skies And poison the mind of a nation with lies If it's done in the interest of free enterprise Then it's proper and perfectly legal It's legal to join a trade union And to picket is one of your rights But don't be offensive when scabs cross the line Be nice to the coppers and keep this in mind To picket effectively that is a crime Worse than if you had murdered your mother
CIt's legal to Fsing on the Ctelly But they Fmake bloody Csure that you G7don't If you Fsing about Cracists and Ffascists and Ccreeps And thieves in high Fplaces that Flive off the G7weak And Cthose who are Fselling us Fright up the Ccreek CThe twisters, the takers, the conmen, the fakers The whole bloody G7gang of exCploiters!