The English Beat - Get A Job/Stand Down Margaret (Live at US Festival 9/3/1982)

The English Beat (a.k.a. The Beat) perform "Get A Job"/"Stand Down Margaret" live at the US Music Festival in San Bernardino in 1982. "Get A Job" is the fifth track on the second side of the 1981 album "Wha'ppen?". "Stand Down Margaret" was featured as the second track on the second side of their 1980 album "I Just Can't Stop It". The English Beat was one of two bands that played the US Festival both years (1982 &1983) the other band being Oingo Boingo.

The English Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in Birmingham, England in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity and sociopolitical topics.

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Lyrics:
There's a training course
Boys and girls of real ambition
Start a new job in a factory
Where they're making ammunition
But it makes them think of stealing
When they read between the lines
Through the owners of this funfair
You won't find a ride you like
Just get-a-job, get-a-job

Manufacture rubbish
Although no one can afford it
You could make a profit
More than anyone deserves
So you find you're left with poison
So you dump it in our water
And so create the kind of problems
Only radiation cures
Through get-a-job, get-a-job

Oh you young people are revolting
8 to 5 should give the jolt needed
In a few years you won't feel quite the same
You'll be playing their get-a-job games

There's a training camp when
You come from from saving nations
Get a new job and a new leg
Social rehabilitation
Every time you thing of leaving
You get caught between the lines
It's the training for the funfair
You get taken for a ride
You!
Just get-a-job, get-a-job
Just get-a-job, get-a-job

[instrumental]

Well it's sing along time
It's very easy
All you gotta sing is
Stand down Margaret

Because he son a lead da way
He son a lead da way
Ya gotta understand as i will take it from the top
My body uptown sound, ya rankign sound
You gotta come around
Awar

I say you rub it uptown and ya rub it downtown
You body sonna lead the way
Lord
I say you rub it all around, but you are gwarn like a clown
You body sonna lead the way

I tell you body uptown sound, yeah
Ow, ow
Tell you body unity sound yah
Brrrr, ah
It's love and unity, love and unity
It's love and unity, awar

I said i see no joy
I see only sorry
I see no chance of your bright new tomorrow

So stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

I say stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

You tell me how can it work in this all white law
What a short sharp lesson,
What a third world war

Oh stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

I say stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret
I sometimes wonder if i'll ever get the chance
Just to sit with my children in a holiday jam
Our lives seem petty in your gold grey hands
Would you give a second thought
Did you ever give a damn, i doubt it
Stand down Margaret
Everybody shout it
Stand down margaret!

Why? why? why?
'cos say too much war in the city yeah
Say too much war in the city, whoa
I tell ya i said a love and unity, the only way
And unity, the only way
Yeah ya know,
You know what!

Work, white law
Short shock
World war
War, war, war, war, war
War, war, war, war, war

Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

I say stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

I say stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

Sing along!

Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

Louder!

Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

One more time!

Stand down Margaret
Stand down please
Stand down Margaret

Thank you, she heard ya!