Sing All Our Cares Away

Mary loves the Grouse

Hides the bottles round the house

She watches chatshows and the soaps

Broken-hearted but she copes

Michael's out of work

Feels he's sinking in the murk

He's unshaven and a mess

Fnds it hard some days to dress

Stevie smashed the delf

Cos he can't express himself

He's consumed by rage

Like his father at his age

Rita's little child

Has a lovely little smile

But this means nothing to her father

Because he's never even seen her.

And we sing, sing all our cares away

And we live to fight another day

Joey's off the gear

He's been clean for half a year

He gets bored out of his mind

But he's trying to toe the line

Maggie's in a chair

'Twas joyriding put her there

She puts the kettle on the boil

And she's always got a smile

And we sing, sing all our cares away

And we live to fight another day

And we sing, sing all our cares away

And we live to love another day

We grow strong from it all,

We grow strong, or we fall

We grow strong from it all,

We grow strong, or we fall

And we sing all our cares away