Dunnes Stores

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Close your eyes and come with me 
back to 1984
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We'll take a walk down Henry Street 
to Dunnes department store
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The supermarket is busy and the 
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registers make a din
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The groceries go rolling out and 
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the cash comes rolling in

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Mary Manning is at the checkout and 
she's trying to keep warm
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When a customer comes up to her with
 a basket on her arm
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The contents of the basket Mary's 
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future was to shape
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For the label clearly stated 
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"Produce of the Cape"

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“I can't check out your oranges 
missus now won’t you bring them back
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For they come from South Africa 
where white oppresses black
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I'd have it on my conscience and I
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 couldn't sleep at night
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If I helped support a system that 
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denies black people's rights”

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Our union says don't handle them 
it's the least that we can do
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We fought oppression here for 
centuries we'll help them fight it 
too
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The managers descended in an 
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avalanche of suits
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And Mary was suspended 'cause 
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she wouldn't touch the fruits

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Dunnes Stores, Dunnes Stores, Dunnes
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In St. Bernard better value beats 
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them all

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Her friends were all behind her and 
the union gave support
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They called a strike and their 
pickets brought all Dunnes stores to
 a halt
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No-one was going to tell the boss,
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 what he bought or sold
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These women are only workers, 
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they must do as they are told

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Isn't that just typical of 
Apartheid’s cruel law
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It's not just in South Africa, the 
rich trampling the poor
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He wouldn't have a boycott, he 
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couldn't give a Tinker's curse
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It doesn't matter how he fills the
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 shelves so long as he lines his 
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purse

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The messages came rolling from all 
around the world
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For such concern and sacrifice, and 
for courage brave and bold
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When fourteen months were over 
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ten women and a man
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Had helped to raise black 
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consciousness all around the land

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Clery's in O'Connell Street wouldn't
 sell South African shoes
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Bestman sent all their clothes back,
 Roche's stores their booze
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Until all South Africa goods were
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 taken off the shelves in Dunnes
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Mary Manning was down in Henry 
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Street, sticking to her guns

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Dunnes stores in St. Bernard better 
value beats them all.
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