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>From rousseaf@nil.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Rousseau) Subject: AOTW: Billy Bragg: Rotting On remand Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 05:51:51 GMT Rotting On Remand (Billy Bragg)
CI stood before the judge that day As hFe refused my bCail
And I knew that I would spend my time
Awaiting trial in jGail I sCaid there is no justice As they lFed me out of the dCoor And the juFdge said, "This isn't a court Cof justice son This iGs a court of laCw".
CThey first sent me to Windsor And tFhen to Stoke on TrCent
In a holding cell in Liverpool
Three days and nights I sGpent My soClicitor can't find me And my faFmily don't kCnow I keep tFelling them that I'm innoCcent They just say, "CGome on son, in Cyou go.C7"
I was piFcked up on suspicion of somCething I haven't done CHere B/CI sit iA/Cn 'F' G/Cwing waiting for my trial to coGme It's a crueFl unusual punishment that socCiety demaFnds Innocent till proven guiClty, roGtting on remCand
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I enDded up in this jail Built in 1G8-82 D
When one man to one prison cell
Was a Victorian vaAlue Now thDree of us are squeezed in here And you caGn't escape the sDmell Of that bucGket in the coDrner And we Aeat in here as weDll
They let me out of this cage
To slGop that bucket oDut To get my food and bring it back And if I'm lucky, get a shAower ApDart from one hours exercise I'm locGked in here all daDy You don't tuGrn criminals into ciDtizens By treaAting them this wDay D7
Is the priGze of law and order the steDnch of Wormwood Scrubs D C#/D B/D A/D A With judges quick to sentence sending more down from above It's a Gcruel unusual punishment that socDiety demanGds D A D Innocent till proven guilty, rotting on remand G D A D ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Francois Rousseau Laboratoire Incognito (Computer Languages) Universite de Montreal, Canada E-mail: rousseaf@iro.umontreal.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------------------