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We used to live in an old water
tank on a rubbish tip.
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We got woke up every morning by having a
load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House, huh!
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Well, when I say "house", it was
just a hole in the ground,
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covered by a sheet of tarpaulin,
but it was a house to us!
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We were evicted from our hole in the ground.
We had to go and live in a lake!
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You were lucky to have a lake! There were 150
of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road!
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A cardboard box?
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You were lucky! We lived for three months
in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank!
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We used to have to get up every morning,
at six o'clock and clean the newspaper,
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go to work down the mill, fourteen
hours a day, week in, week out,
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for sixpence a week, and when we got home,
our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
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Luxury! We used to have to get out of the
lake at three o'clock in the morning,
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clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel,
work twenty hours a day at mill,
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for twopence a month, come home,
and dad would beat us around the head
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and neck with a broken bottle,
if we were lucky!
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Well, of course, we had it tough! We used
to have to get up out of the shoebox
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in the middle of the night, and lick
the road clean with our tongues!
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We had to eat half a handful of freezing cold
gravel, work twenty-four hours a day at mill
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for fourpence every six years, and when we got home,
our dad would slice us in two with a breadknife!
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Right! I had to get up in the morning,
at ten o'clock at night,
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half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump
of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day
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down mill and pay mill-owner for permission
to come to work, and when we got home,
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our dad would kill us and dance about on our
graves, singing Hallelujah!
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Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people
of today that, and they won't believe you!
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No, no they won't!
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Sports Update
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Well, there may be no score, but there's
certainly no lack of excitement here.