There must have been a few strikes on that summer. It’s a neat idea but probably reads better than it would have performed. I don’t think it was performed.
STRIKE ME A LETTER
(To the Tune of “The Letter”)VERSE 1
SINGER: Give me a ticket for an aeroplane.
STRIKE 1: (speaks) Sorry dear, the pilots and air traffic controllers are on strike.
SINGER: Ain’t got time to take a fast train.
STRIKE 2: (voiceover) London Transport apologises for the inconvenience, but due to industrial action there are no fast train Metropolitan Line services today.
SINGER: Lonely days are gone, I’m a goin’ home,
Cos my baby just-a wrote me a letter.
STRIKE 3: (speaks) Unlikely, dear – post boxes are boarded up for the umpteenth time as postal workers are staging another 24 hour stoppage…..
SINGER: (speaks – frustrated)…. she had it couriered to me – OK?VERSE 2
SINGER: I don’t care how much money I’ve got to spend.
STRIKE 1: (speaks) Cashpoint machine’s broken down again.
SINGER: Got to get back to my baby again.
STRIKE 3: (speaks) You’ll have to drive, clever clogs. No planes and trains, remember?
SINGER: Strikes that never end, drive me round the bend,
And now my baby just e-mailed me a letter.MIDDLE EIGHT
SINGER: Then she faxed me a letter and demanded her rights to see me without doubt,
Listen, mister, in the States, Bill Clinton says it’s just three strikes and you are out,
I’ll go there, hey….VERSE 3
SINGER: Give me a ticket for an Aeroplane,
STRIKE 1: (speaks) Choose your transatlantic carrier, sir – British Airways, British Airways or British Airways.
SINGER: (speaks) um….British Airways please.
STRIKE 1: (speaks) I think they’re about to go on strike again.
SINGER: These disputes are such a vast pain
Tories cause a storm, strikes become the norm,
I think I’ll write John Major a letter.
STRIKE 3: (speaks) Not much point just now, the postal workers are still on strike.
SINGER: (speaks) Just answer me this one question – how do striking postal workers hold a postal ballot to agree the end of a strike?BLACKOUT
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