THE BOMB THAT JACK BUILT
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Des Dillon (U.K.)
This is the drone that dropped the bomb
That killed the girls
This is the place in a Glasgow street
That built the drone
That dropped the bomb
That killed the girls at school time
This the father who fed his girls
By assembling the bomb
On the factory line
That makes the bombs
To feed to the drone
That dropped the bomb
On schoolgirls
This is the daughter
Who knows nothing of slaughter
As she eats seven burgers
Bought by the father
By making the bombs
To feed the drone
That dropped the bomb
On schoolgirls.
This is the one
Who's business is death
Who owns the place
That pays the man
To build the bomb
That feeds the drone
That dropped the bomb
On schoolgirls.
This is the politician
with something surely missing
Who makes the laws
Supporting the one
Who owns the place
That pays the man
To build the bomb
That feeds the drone
That dropped the bomb
On schoolgirls.
Here are the folk
Who travelled afar
Who gave up their lives
While crossed a sea
Because of the bomb that Jack built
Here are we
Watching TV
And drinking our tea
Deploring the bomb
That Jack built.
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