Union Songs

We Will Sack You

Johnny you're a bad boy, you make a lotta noise
You never listen up for the people's voice
You got egg on yo' face
You big disgrace
Forcing US policy all over the place

We will we will sack you
We will we will sack you

You're selling off our country, just to make a quid
You privatise the future of Australian kids
You lie to our face
You big disgrace
Your lies have caught you so you're outta the race

We will we will sack you
We will we will sack you

Johnny there's a teacher, a brickie and a nurse
Needing a cure of the Howard curse
Their wages are low
Johnny's gotta go
No more of your bullshit, we just say GO!

We will we will sack you
We will we will sack you
What about the poor folk, the oldies and sick
Just another target for the budgeting stick
Look at the poor man
Doin' what he can
Reachin' his dinner from a dog food can

We will we will sack you
We will we will sack you
We will we will sack you
We will we will sack you

Notes

Many thanks to Mike Fitzgerald for permission to add this song to the Union Songs web collection

"I am an Organiser for AEU in ACT. We had an extended dispute with Jon Stanhope and Andrew Barr (ACT Chief Minister and Minister of Education) though out much of 2006. We organized many stop work meetings (with 500-3500 attendees, depending on the type of stop work meeting) and sang most of the following songs, en masse, outside the ACT Legislative Assembly. The dispute was sent to private arbitration and settled when it was clear to the ACT govt. that the members were becoming energised by the stop works and numbers were increasing over the months, not decreasing, and that they quite a few members knew the songs so well that they could sing the songs without their song sheets!

Some songs; words and music written by Mike Fitzgerald. Some songs; words written to traditional / popular tunes by Bill Book and Mike Fitzgerald"

Find more works by Mike Fitzgerald in this collection

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