To Have And To Have Not  - Billy Bragg


    Up in the morning and out to school
    Mother says there'll be no work next year
    Qualifications once the Golden Rule
    Are now just pieces of paper

    Just because you're better than me
    Doesn't mean I'm lazy
    Just because you're going forwards
    Doesn't mean I'm going backwards

    If you look the part you'll get the job
    In last year's trousers and your old school shoes
    The truth is son, it's a buyers market
    They can afford to pick and choose

    Just because you're better than me
    Doesn't mean I'm lazy
    Just because I dress like this
    Doesn't mean I'm a communist

    The factories are closing and the army's full-
    I don't know what I'm going to do
    But I've come to see in the Land of the Free
    There's only a future for the Chosen Few

    Just because you're better than me
    Doesn't mean I'm lazy
    Just because you're going forwards
    Doesn't mean I'm going backwards

    At twenty one you're on top of the scrapheap
    At sixteen you were top of the class
    All they taught you at school
    Was how to be a good worker
    The system has failed you, don't fail yourself

    Just because you're better than me
    Doesn't mean I'm lazy
    Just because you're going forwards
    Doesn't mean I'm going backwards

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