joe worker (the cradle will rock)

[struggle4progress]

listen
here's a story
not much fun and not much glory
low class
low down
the thing you never care to see until there is a showdown
here it is
i'll make it snappy
are you ready?
everybody happy?

joe worker gets gypped
for no good reason just gypped
from the start until the finish comes
they feed him out of garbage cans
they breed him in the slums

joe worker will go
to shops where stuff is on show
he'll look at the meat
he'll look at the bread
and too little to eat
sort of goes to the head
one big question
inside me cries
how many fakers
peace undertakers
paid strike-breakers
how many toiling ailing dying piled up bodies
brother
does it take
to make you wise? ...