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Christy Moore
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Close your eyes and come with me back to 1984
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We'll take a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes
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Department store.
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The supermarket's busy and the registers make a din'
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The groceries go rolling out and the cash comes rolling
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In.
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Mary Manning is at the checkout and she's trying to
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Keep warm,
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When a customer comes up to her with a basket on her
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Arm
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The contents of the basket Mary's future is to shape
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But the label clearly stated "Produce Of The Cape"
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I can't check out your oranges Mrs, now won't you bring
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Them back.
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For they come from South Africa, where White oppresses
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Black
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I'd have it on my conscience and I couldn't sleep at
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Night
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If I helped support the system that denies Black
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People's rights
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Our union says "Don't Handle Them. it's the least that
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We can do.
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We Fought oppression here for centuries, we'll help
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Them fight it too"
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The managers descended in an avalanche of suits
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And Mary was suspended cos she wouldn't touch the
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Fruits.
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Chorus:
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Dunnes Stores Dunnes Stores
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Dunnes Stores with St Bernard Better Value Beats Them
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All
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Well, her friends are all behind her and the union gave
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Support
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And they called a strike and the pickets brought all
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Dunnes' Stores to a halt
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No one was going to tell the Boss what he bought or
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Sold
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These women are only workers, they must do as they are
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Told.
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Isn't it just typical of a partite screwball law?
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It's not just in South Africa, the Rich Temple and the
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Poor.
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He wouldn't have a boycott, he couldnt give a tinker's
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Curse
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Doesn't matter how he fills the shelves as long as he
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Lines his Purse
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Chorus
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The messages came rollin' in from all around the world
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For such concern and sacrifice and for courage brave
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And bold.
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When 14 months were over, 10 women and a man
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Had helped to raise the consiousness all around the
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Land.
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Cleary's in O'Connell street wouldn't sell South
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African shoes.
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Best Man sent all their clothes back, Roches Stores
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Sent back their booze.
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Until all South African goods were taken off the
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Shelves in Dunnes.
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And Mary Manning was down in Henry Street sticking to
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Her guns
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Chorus
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