The thing's all wrong (I sez to -im)
Now look, there's this -ere Monday, Jim,
Comes before Christmas. Be a toff
An' lest us -ave the Monday off.
-E -ums an' -ars. An' then he's got
To talk a lot of silly rot
Abut -ow business binds a man;
An' -e don't quite see -ow -e can
Afford to give me Monday in,
Seein' he'll lose a lot of tin
Under our capit'listic plan
Which sort of binds a business man
-Lest his competitors was bound
To give the Monday all around.

If but (-e sez) they would agree
To let the trade -ave Monday free
Then -e would do it. There you are!
Shows -ow Democracy's a bar.
It's competition, don't you see,
That robs a man of liberty.
But, under Socialism . . . Wot?
Now, listen, I ain't talkin' rot.
I know that -e's me boss. But look,
Our scheme of Gover'ment's all crook.

Now, under Socialism, see,
If I said, 'I want Monday free!'
Why, under right conditions, then,
They'd treat their men like they was men;
An' seein' it was Christmas week,
We would n't -ave to go an' seek
No favors. We'd just tell -em flat:
'We're takin' Monday; an' that's that!'
Wot? Bosses? . . . Well, I s'pose there'd be
This, wot you call, Bureaucracy.

To rule us. Yes; per'aps there might;
An' as you say, it don't seem right
That they should want to boss a man . . . .
But wot about his Fascist plan?

Now, under that, we'd say, 'look -ere
Us fellers wants this Monday clear.'
An', bein' reasonable like,
Blokes would n't -ave to call a strike
To get their way . . . . Well, I suppose
There's be Dictators - coves like those
To fed a coot on castor oil
If they decided not to toil
On Monday. That seems pretty tough,
All systems seems to treat men rough.