Mar­tin George

All dem union lead­ers in a flap

About dis five per cent wages cap

So Kam­la come out an' tell dem flat

I nev­er say cap, in­stead is ah hat

De union men try to show who is boss

She rough dem up an' say who vex dey lorse

No­body else go­ing to run de show

Not even Er­rol, nor Rudy, nor Bhoe.

Dem union men up­set like dey want to puke

When­ev­er dey hear de name Wat­son Duke

Dey say Duke cud put Bat­man in he place

He worse dan Two Face, dey call him Three Face

When Wat­son say stand up, dem labour men run

Dis union busi­ness t'ing ain't re­al­ly no fun

When dey thought PSA protest was alive

Duke un­der de ta­ble, tak­ing a five

De rest ah dem say dey ain't tak­ing dat

Whether is cap, ban­dan­na, or hat

Dey mus' be free to ne­go­ti­ate

With­out de Gov­ern­ment set­ting a fixed rate

But de par­ties now reach a stale­mate

With gen­er­al strike set for fu­ture date

De talks like dey on­ly get­ting An­cil mad

He blow­ing more steam and talk­ing more bad

He say dat dem work­ers so obe­di­ent

And dey will obey de word of de Gov­ern­ment

He say Kam­la tell dem do what dey like

Go and call yuh damn na­tion­al strike

So dat de ball now in union court

To go ahead or de­cide to abort

To show dat dey se­ri­ous an' not a fluke

And not sell­outs like dey say­ing 'bout Duke

Fig­ur­ing Wat­son out, dey just don't know

Dey cyar pre­dict which way de wind go blow

But what dem union men don't un­der­stan'

Wat­son could out­do any weath­er­man

So he swing East and then he swing West

While his mem­bers get­ting less and less

Well you know Duke re­al­ly great for sure

He con­vince PSA less is more

Say­ing he get house for you and for me

But in de end Wat­son hold­ing de key

Den he went St Joseph in WASA an' fete up

But fel­low unions say­ing is ah set up

Dey say he gone an' do de same t'ing

And dat de Duke dis­grac­ing Char­lie King

Dey say dat is ah man over­board

Dey throw he out de Fyz­abad ac­cord

Dar­ing him to come an' set foot down dey

When they cel­e­brat­ing Labour Day

Busi­ness lead­ers ner­vous, ill at ease

Ro­get con­tin­ue to taunt and to tease

He have de crowd an' he know how to wuk it

Like how Man­ning pulling date from back pock­et

But those who don't learn lessons from his­to­ry

Doomed to suf­fer de same des­tiny

An­cil had bet­ter don't try to tempt fate

An' end up like Patrick on elec­tion date

Re­mem­ber when teach­ers was on de ram­page

And ra­ma­jay­ing all over de stage

To de six per cent dey had said "No"

And end up wid dunce cap an' a big ze­ro

Wid all dese big, big fig­ures in de sky

Some­times yuh end up eat­ing hum­ble pie

And when yuh fall back down to de earth

In­stead ah pelau and cur­ry, yuh eat dirt

Now every­body want de good times to flam

And to be eat­ing de ham and de jam

But trade unions does for­get de sto­ry

'Bout cham­pagne taste an' pock­et dat like mau­by

Re­mem­ber Wat­son went Hy­att and say how

Dey want­ed to bar­be­cue a big fat cow

You have to make re­al­is­tic re­quests

Linked to pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and to progress

You cyar want every­thing in yuh favour

And say if yuh ain't get, yuh with­hold yuh labour

Mak­ing a bar­gain is a two-way street

Where both par­ties have to sit down an' treat

Both sides have to be pre­pared to give

In dis small space we all have to live

Madam PM you could lead de way

An' you could still have de fi­nal say

"Five per cent cap I nev­er say dat,

What I said was a six per cent hat".