There's a training course

boys and girls of real ambition

start a new job in a factory

where they're making ammunition

but it makes them think of stealing

when they read between the lines

through the owners of this funfair

you won't find a ride you like

just get-a-job, get-a-job 



manufacture rubbish

although no one can afford it

you could make a profit

more than anyone deserves

so you find you're left with poison

so you dump it in our water

and so create the kind of problems

only radiation cures

through get-a-job, get-a-job 



oh you young people are revolting

8 to 5 should give the jolt needed

in a few years you won't feel quite the same

you'll be playing their get-a-job games 



there's a training camp when

you come from from saving nations

get a new job and a new leg

social rehabilitation

every time you thing of leaving

you get caught between the lines

it's the training for the funfair

you get taken for a ride

you!

just get-a-job, get-a-job

just get-a-job, get-a-job 



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well it's sing along time

it's very easy 

all you gotta sing is

stand down Margaret



because he son a lead da way

he son a  lead da way

ya gotta understand as i will take it from the top

my body uptown sound, ya rankign sound

you gotta come around

awar



i say you rub it uptown and ya rub it downtown

you body sonna lead the way

Lord

i say you  rub it all around, but you are gwarn like a clown

you body sonna lead the way



i tell you body uptown sound, yeah

ow, ow

tell you body unity sound yah

brrrr, ah

it's love and unity, love and unity

it's love and unity, awar



i said i see no joy

i see only sorry

i see no chance of your bright new tomorrow



so stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



i say stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



you tell me how can it work in this all white law

what a short sharp lesson, 

what a third world war



oh stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



i say stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret

i sometimes wonder if i'll ever get the chance

just to sit with my children in a holiday jam

our lives seem petty in your gold grey hands

would you give a second thought

did you ever give a damn, i doubt it

stand down Margaret

everybody shout it

stand down margaret!



why? why? why?

'cos say too much war in the city yeah

say too much war in the city, whoa

i tell ya i said a love and unity, the only way

and unity, the only way

yeah ya know,

you know what!



work, white law

short shock

world war

war, war, war, war, war

war, war, war, war, war



stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



i say stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



i say stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



sing along!



stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



louder!



stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



one more time!



stand down Margaret

stand down please

stand down Margaret



thank you, she heard ya!