From “Sharper’s” Joe  Jones

Recorded by Mike Yates, Orpington, 12^th September 1973

Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/46 (VWML 15 CDA Yates)

The little bee’s up aloft,

A-making the little honey,

The soldiers do the dirty work,

And the bookies get your money!

From “Sharper’s” Joe  Jones

Recorded by Mike Yates, Orpington, 12^th September 1973

Mike Yates collection, British Library Sound Archive C 796/46 (VWML 15 CDA Yates)

Lending and spending and giving away,

Is the three easiest things you can do on a day.

But working, and borrowing, and earning your own

Is the three hardest things that ever was known.

Here’s to the man that’s industrious,

Here’s to the man that works hard for his brass

And never denies his own country.

The world is round and so is the wheel

The sting of death we all must feel.

If life was a thing that money would buy,

The rich would live and the poor would die.