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[Factory Owner 1]
In good old Queen Victoria's day
Industrial revolution
Meant bosses said "Please, we need more employees"
We needed a solution

[Factory Owners 2/3]
Who will climb our chimneys?
Who will power our grids?
[Factory Owner 1]
Victorian families so desperately poor
They'll let us employ their kids
For...

[Children]
Work, terrible work
[Factory Owners]
From very young ages
[Children]
Up chimneys to clean
[Factory Owners]
Paid pitiful wages
[Children]
Work, terrible work
[Factory Owner 1]
Pins make you work faster
[Children]
If we grew too big
[Child 1]
Get sacked by the master!

[Factory Owner 3]
Now you're all in my employ
Cleaning in the factory
[Child 2]
We're not very strong!
[Child 3]
And the hours are long!
[Factory Owner 3]
This work is unsatisfactory

[Children]
Learn not to get caught in spokes
Or trap our hands in gauges
[Factory Owner 3]
To stop machines and get you out
Will cost you a week's wages

[Children]
Work, terrible work
[Factory Owners]
There's no health or safety
[Children]
So if we get hurt
[Child 4]
They will just replace me!
[Child 5]
Work, terrible work
... Sorry

[Child 6]
Now that I am short of cash
I have to pick pockets
Wallets from gentlemen
And ladies' lockets
Small enough to get away
Hardly ever caught
And if we are, we're kids, you see
To cry is what we're taught
Boo-hoo!

[Children]
Work, terrible work
[Factory Owners]
Dangerous and demeaning
[Children]
No time to complain
[Factory Owners]
Get back to your cleaning
[Children]
Work, terrible work
Guess what we are dreaming
School, glorious school
Wonderful school, marvellous school
Wish we went to school

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