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If It Wasn't For The Unions
Hamish Imlach
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Toodle-oo-dle-oo-dle-oo
I'll tell ye something awfy true
Ye wouldnae hae your tellys the noo
If it wasnae for the union
Now I had a boss in Aberdeen
The nicest fellow that ever was seen
But he must have thought me hell of a green
Before I joined the union
Toodle-oo-dle-oo-dle-oo
I'll tell ye something awfy true
Ye wouldnae hae your tellys the noo
If it wasnae for the union
And I had a boss called Allardyce
And he was really hell of a nice
Except for the way he loaded the dice
Before I joined the union
Toodle-oo-dle-oo-dle-oo
I'll tell ye something awfy true
Ye wouldnae hae your tellys the noo
If it wasnae for the union
I had a boss, his name was Black
He told all the workers to call him Jack
But he's bloody good, I'd be in the sack
Before I joined the union
Toodle-oo-dle-oo-dle-oo
I'll tell ye something awfy true
Ye wouldnae hae your tellys the noo
If it wasnae for the union
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Well a pal of mine has bought a car
A second-handed Jaguar
He wouldn't have travelled half as far
If it wasn't for his union
Toodle-oo-dle-oo-dle-oo
I'll tell ye something awfy true
Ye wouldnae hae your tellys the noo
If it wasnae for the union
The bosses they were doing fine
We weans were working doon the mine
Have them on the assembly lines
If it wasn't for the union
Toodle-oo-dle-oo-dle-oo
I'll tell ye something awfy true
Ye wouldnae hae your tellys the noo
If it wasnae for the union
So men and women all agree
It's time to rise up off yer knee
And raise the banner of unity
Forward with the union
Toodle-oo-dle-oo-dle-oo
I'll tell ye something awfy true
Ye wouldnae hae your tellys the noo
If it wasnae for your unions
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