Jake Heggie - The Factory Window Song
Somebody's always throwing bricks
Somebody's always heaving cinders
Playing ugly Yahoo tricks
Factory windows are always broken
Other windows are let alone
No one throws through the chapel-window
The bitter, snarling, derisive stone
Factory windows are always broken
Something or other is going wrong
Something is rotten -- I think, in Denmark
End of the factory-window song
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