We Will Rob You

Christmas is a time for giving.  It follows logically, then, that it is also a time for taking.  In past times the poor were unable to enjoy the pleasures of  the first, and were confined to aiding the pleasure of others in this area.  That, on occasion, they may have met those who were masochistic in this regard was surely not their fault, even if it meant that some may have been a little over eager, as in this song

We Will Rob You can be heard, sung in duet with Dave Burland, on Sid's album Boiled In The Bag.

Words and music appeared in The Ballad of Sid Kipper, now out of print.

All you geezers sweetly sleep, do not stir,

We will nick your coats of fur.

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

You hang stockings on your beds;

We wear ours upon our heads.

For our little babies' sake, do not wake;

Christmas is a time to take.

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

Charity begins at home -

Your home is the one we've chose.

While you dream of wise men three, bearing gifts,

Myrrh and frankincense to sniff;

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

You can keep the smelly stuff;

Gold is good enough for us.

You may toss and turn at night, for you know,

Rich men can't to heaven go.

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

Now you can sleep sweet for you're

Not a rich man any more.

Last year at about this time, we got nicked,

I got nine months, he got six.

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

We will rob you, rob you, rob you;

That's the reason why, we fear,

We can come but once a year.

Copyright Chris Sugden, 1996