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Well the young one’s today are all vandals
The buggers are muggers an all
When their not out ram raiding their out there parading
The stuff they nicked in the last haul
Well hard discipline never did me any harm
And conscription would do them all good
And if I had me way we would go back to the days
When a criminal knew where he stood
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I’d flock them and flay them and hang them
I’d bring back the birch and the cat
I’d give them what for the strong arm of the law
The thumb screws the stocks and all that
Course we could give them jobs and a future
And their chance of a place in the sun
We could give them fair shares in a country that cares
But it would’t be half as much fun
Well take the probationary service
They’d be sacked to a man right away
And all of them shirkers they call social workers
I’d find them real jobs for a change
Then there be no more pleading for mercy
While stood in the dock looking nervous
When some time served old lag caught red handed with swag
Thanking god for community service No I’d…………..
I could save the poor tax payers money
Do away the jury I say
For a judge worth his salt knows the criminal sort
He can spot them a mile away
It’s their clothes and their haircuts and accents
It lets them down time after time
With no jury to please a good judge could at ease
Select punishment fit for the crime Like…………..
Well prisons today are like holiday camps
They get snooker ping pong and TV
When their not breaking rocks up they should be chained and lock up
Not studying for a lawyers degrees
There’s no porridge and no bread and water
They get lashings of whisky and per nod
It’s like something of Sky or straight of HI Di HI
When it should be like Dante’s inferno No I’d………..
They say villains need our understanding
Compassion and help not reproof
but show to much meekness they’ll take it as weakness
And start chucking tiles of the roof
I admit we might string up a few by mistake
By break the old innocent jurat
It just means they were hung before they did wrong
Well prevention is better than cure So lets…………..