Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

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(Written as an old NUM member)

 

Who wants to be a millionaire?

I don’t

I’m proud of being doctrinaire

I won’t

Who wants the bother of a Barbican flat?

A free London flat? I wouldn’t want that!

Who wants sponduliks cash-in-hand?

I don’t

Who wants the Union’s hundred grand?

I don’t

Who cares about the membership’s fees?

I don’t

No I don’t

I did it all for me.

 

Who wants to be a millionaire?

I don’t

Dine out on junkets in Red Square?

I don’t

Who wants to mix with City traders and clerks?

They’re just bourgeois sharks according to Marx.

Who cares about the NUM?

I don’t

I’ve had my pickings out of them

I have

Who cares for Lenin, Engels, Trotsky?

I don’t

No I don’t

Cos I just cared for me.

 

 

Who wants to be a millionaire?

I don’t

Gross allegations everywhere

I don’t

Everyone knows that I would not misbehave

By forging a note signed by old Frankie Cave;

Who took the Far Left’s accolades?

I did

Who urged you to the barricades?

I did

Who’s the Great Revolutionary?

I was

But I’m not

I did it all for me.

 

Who wants to be a millionaire?

I do

Run off with loads of silverware?

I do

Who wants to stash brass in the IEMO?

The IEMO? (One bloke and his hoe)

Ill-gotten gains are in my grip

They are

So stuff the union membership

I did

So who’s the socialist on a spree?

I am

Yes I am

I did it all for me.

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John Coopey

Thu 16th Jan 2014 16:52

That's not Endy Cole, is it, MC?

Endy Curl, Endy Curl,
Endy Endy Endy Curl,
When e gets the baarl
He scurs a gurl
Endy Endy Curl.

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M.C. Newberry

Thu 16th Jan 2014 16:11

Oops - of course, it was COLE! :-)
Is this post a case of "Taking Cole's to Selby?"

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John Coopey

Wed 15th Jan 2014 17:28

Cruelly stolen from me, MC. And that Frank Sinatra made a ham fist of singing it compared to me!

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 15th Jan 2014 17:01

I seem to recall that an earlier version of this
witty ditty was written by a certain COAL PORTER!
:-)

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John Coopey

Wed 15th Jan 2014 13:28

250,000 of us there were then, Harry. About 3,000 now. His predictions were right but his prosecution of the strike abysmal.
Lady Ha Ha - Neither the extreme Left nor Right ever see their own gullibility in following like sheep.

<Deleted User> (10832)

Wed 15th Jan 2014 13:09

I never liked him but then I don't know much about politics. Never realised he was such a bad man though. Jeepers - peeps like that shouldn't be leading people anywhere.

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Harry O'Neill

Tue 14th Jan 2014 23:56


And just think...today, nobody gives a frack about it all.

Gallently sung John.

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