The Socialist ABC-David Clelland MP

[ti:The Socialist ABC] [ar:David Clelland MP] [al:The Bonny Gateshead Lass' Gateshead Songs - The Northumbria Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Socialist ABC - David Clelland MP [00:02.71]When I was just a tiny little lad [00:05.76] [00:06.56]Me daddy said to me [00:08.62] [00:09.88]The time has come me bonny bonny bairn [00:14.12]To learn your abc [00:16.98] [00:18.35]Now daddy was a lodge chairman [00:20.14]In the coalfields of the tyne [00:21.65] [00:22.36]And his alphabetic was different [00:24.89]From the enid blyton kind [00:26.78] [00:30.35]He sang 'a is for alienation [00:33.65] [00:34.32]That made me the man that I am and [00:37.69]B's for the boss who's a bastard [00:41.04]A bourgeois who don't give a damn [00:43.30] [00:44.49]C is for capitalism [00:45.62] [00:47.15]The bosses' reactionary creed and [00:51.07]D's for dictatorship laddie [00:53.80]But the best proletarian breed [00:56.84] [00:57.83]E is for exploitation [01:00.77]That workers have suffered so long and [01:04.24]F is for old ludwig feuerbach [01:07.49]The first one to say it was wrong [01:09.78] [01:13.86]G is all gerrymanderers [01:14.89] [01:16.65]Like lord muck and sir whatsisname and [01:20.02]H is the hell that they'll go to [01:23.40]When the workers have kindled the flame [01:25.81] [01:26.96]I's for imperialism [01:30.00]And america's kind is the worst and [01:32.92]J is for sweet jingoism [01:36.36]That the tories all think of the first [01:38.92] [01:40.06]K is for good old kier hardy [01:43.17]Who fought out the working class fight and [01:46.41]L is for vladimir lenin [01:49.11]Who showed him the left was all right [01:51.91] [01:53.25]M is of course for karl marx [01:56.41]The mommy and the daddy of them all and [01:59.47]N is for nationalisation [02:02.73]Without it we'd crumble and fall [02:05.10] [02:06.32]O is for overproduction [02:09.13]That capitalist economy brings and [02:12.20] [02:12.84]P is for all private property [02:15.56]The greatest of all of the sins [02:18.63] [02:19.39]Q's for the quid pro quo [02:22.04]That we'll deal out so well and so soon when [02:25.68]R for revolution is shouted and [02:29.03]The red flag becomes the top tune [02:30.85] [02:32.51]S is for sad stalinism [02:35.47]That gave us all such a bad name and [02:38.75]T is for trotsky the hero [02:42.00]Who had to take all of the blame [02:44.22] [02:45.50]U's for the union of workers [02:48.54]The union will live to the end and [02:51.67]V is for vodka yes vodka [02:54.96]The vun drink that vont bring the bends [02:57.33] [02:58.35]W's for all willing workers [03:01.31]And that's where the memory fades [03:04.61]For x y and zed me poor daddy said [03:07.25] [03:08.09]Will be written on the street barricades [03:10.62] [03:12.35]But now that I'm along not tiny little lad [03:15.81] [03:16.42]Me daddy says to me [03:18.61] [03:19.82]Please try to forget the thing that I said [03:24.32]Especially the abc [03:27.44] [03:28.91]For daddy is no longer a union man [03:32.78]And he's had to change his plea [03:35.55] [03:36.94]His alphabet is different now [03:42.34]They made him a labour mp