I wrote quite a few about the health service and in particular about how I felt the Tory government was running it down. This was not one of my best pieces on that topic and I don’t think it was used. I probably wrote it on the back of a request for a new one on that topic.
_ YOUNG, HEALTHY AND FIT _
(To the Tune of "Young, Gifted and Black")
VERSE 1 – HEALTHY YOUNGSTERS
Young, healthy and fit,
They love us in the NHS;
Because we don’t need them one bit,
And their finance is in a mess.
So we’re feeling relieved,
As the public’s been deceived,
Now you’re young, healthy and fit,
Or in the shit.VERSE 2 – SICKLY OLDSTERS
Old, crippled and weak,
Oh what a ghastly way to be;
Cos when we were at our peak,
We could have got some therapy.
But we’re feeling real low,
Cos we can’t get our physio,
So we’re old, crippled and bled,
Might as well be dead.
Below is a video with Bob & Marcia singing Young Gifted And Black with the lyrics on the screen: