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"Dan"
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By Eric Bogle
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I'm pleased to meet you, my name's Dan,
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And I'm an honest working man
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A tarnished badge, they tell me,
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But it's one I wear with pride
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A fair day's work for a fair day's pay,
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I've always lived my life that way
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But now I can't help thinking,
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I've been taken for a ride
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Those hard years on the factory floor,
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Toilin' in the ceaseless roar,
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That made me old before my time,
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Wrecked my hearing and my health
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And when I total up the cost,
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What I've gained to what I've lost
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I ask myself now Dan,
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What's the total of your wealth?
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Just how much is your life worth?
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I live in a house I'll never own,
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Could never get a housing loan
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Bank managers and suchlike,
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Don't rate the likes of me
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Feeding three kids on a fitter's wage,
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I've always found it hard to save
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And being an honest working man
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Don't count as equity
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All those years of toil and sweat,
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Climbing in and out of debt
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I often look back on them
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And ask myself for what?
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A rented house on a grimy street
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An endless fight to make ends meet
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When you add it all together,
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It don't seem like a lot
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But it's all that I've got
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But a man's life can't be judged alone
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By what he has or what he owns
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It's what he loves and cares for
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That gives it quality
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And what gives meaning to my life
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Are my three kids and my wife
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We've always stuck together,
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Always being a family
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Now my kids are rotting on the dole,
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Holding out the beggar's bowl
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I see the anger in their eyes,
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It cuts me to the heart
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And shall I simply stand aside
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While my kids are slowly crucified?
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Watch all I've worked and cared for
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As it slowly falls apart
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Well by Christ, I won't do that
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I'm pleased to meet you, my name's Dan,
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And I'm an honest working man
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A tarnished badge, they tell me,
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But it's one I wear with pride
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A fair day's work for a fair day's pay,
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I've always lived my life that way
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But now I can't help thinking,
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I've been taken for a ride
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And though I ain't got much to spare,
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What I have I'm going to share
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To give my kids and other kids,
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Some purpose, pride, and place
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And you leeches, grown fat on my sweat,
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I promise you I won't forget
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When I asked you if you'd share the load,
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You laughed right in my face
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Yes, you laughed right in my face
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I'm pleased to meet you, my name's Dan,
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And I'm an honest working man
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