There's a training course
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boys and girls of real ambition
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start a new job in a factory
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where they're making ammunition
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but it makes them think of stealing
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when they read between the lines
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through the owners of this funfair
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you won't find a ride you like
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just get-a-job, get-a-job
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manufacture rubbish
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although no one can afford it
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you could make a profit
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more than anyone deserves
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so you find you're left with poison
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so you dump it in our water
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and so create the kind of problems
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only radiation cures
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through get-a-job, get-a-job
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oh you young people are revolting
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8 to 5 should give the jolt needed
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in a few years you won't feel quite the same
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you'll be playing their get-a-job games
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there's a training camp when
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you come from from saving nations
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get a new job and a new leg
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social rehabilitation
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every time you thing of leaving
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you get caught between the lines
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it's the training for the funfair
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you get taken for a ride
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you!
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just get-a-job, get-a-job
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just get-a-job, get-a-job
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well it's sing along time
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it's very easy
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all you gotta sing is
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stand down Margaret
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because he son a lead da way
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he son a lead da way
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ya gotta understand as i will take it from the top
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my body uptown sound, ya rankign sound
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you gotta come around
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awar
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i say you rub it uptown and ya rub it downtown
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you body sonna lead the way
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Lord
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i say you rub it all around, but you are gwarn like a clown
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you body sonna lead the way
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i tell you body uptown sound, yeah
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ow, ow
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tell you body unity sound yah
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brrrr, ah
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it's love and unity, love and unity
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it's love and unity, awar
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i said i see no joy
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i see only sorry
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i see no chance of your bright new tomorrow
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so stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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i say stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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you tell me how can it work in this all white law
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what a short sharp lesson,
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what a third world war
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oh stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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i say stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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i sometimes wonder if i'll ever get the chance
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just to sit with my children in a holiday jam
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our lives seem petty in your gold grey hands
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would you give a second thought
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did you ever give a damn, i doubt it
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stand down Margaret
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everybody shout it
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stand down margaret!
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why? why? why?
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'cos say too much war in the city yeah
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say too much war in the city, whoa
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i tell ya i said a love and unity, the only way
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and unity, the only way
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yeah ya know,
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you know what!
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work, white law
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short shock
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world war
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war, war, war, war, war
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war, war, war, war, war
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stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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i say stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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i say stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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sing along!
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stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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louder!
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stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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one more time!
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stand down Margaret
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stand down please
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stand down Margaret
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thank you, she heard ya!
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Get-a-job/stand down Margaret (live)
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The English Beat |