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Artist/Band: 
Morrissey 
Lyrics for Song: Slum Mums 
Lyrics for Album: I Have Forgiven Jesus [2004]
  
               
  151>Six filthy children
  from six absent fathers
 
 
  And then you turn
  to us for succour
  because you think
  we're just suckers
 
 
  We may be welfare, oh yeah,
  but we don't care
  and we get paid to despise
  your council house eyes
 
 
  You can change your name
  you can bleach your skin
  camouflage your accent
  so that even you don't recognise it
 
 
  But you won't escape
  from the slum mums
  because you are one
  because you live and breathe like one
 
 
  And the Labour government
  can't stand the slum mums
  It's ingrained
  underneath your fingernails
 
 
  The office of the
  Social Service
  is strategically placed
  in a dowdy, rowdy part of town
  to discourage you
  from signing
 
 
  We make you feel
  as if you're whining
  when you claim
  what's legally yours
 
 
  You can change your name
  and you can bleach your skin
  camouflage your accent
  so that even you don't recognise it
 
 
  But you won't escape
  from the slum mums
  because you are one
  because you live and breathe like one
 
 
  And the Labour government
  can't stand the slum mums
  It's ingrained
  underneath your fingernails
 
 
  Take you and your rat pack brood
  to the long grass of the meadow
  administer seven doses lethal and illegal
  which may render you elsewhere
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| Album Lyrics: I Have Forgiven Jesus [2004] | 
 
   Morrissey 
"I Have Forgiven Jesus [2004]"
 
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