Eighth Day Flashbacks

The Punter & The Worker
I’m just a café worker and my story’s seldom told
I have wasted all potential
For a pocketful of lentils and some promises
All lies and jests
Still I just take what I want to take
And bugger all the rest
That’s cooperative rules
Yes, co-op rules
That’s cooperative rules
Co-op rules
That’s cooperative rules, the co-op rules
At the counter stands a punter, she awaits with trembling knee
She is hoping for some dinner
That contains no speck of gluten and is sugar-free
And without cheese
Or tomatoes, salt or onions
But make it tasty please
For the punter has a right
Get it right
Get it right, oh, get it right
Get it right,
Get it right, oh get it right
Please get it right
In the park there lies a vagrant who’s not fit to work again
For he carries a reminder
Of every cake that weighed him down
And stuck there, till he cried out
In his anger and his pain
“I need fibre but not this much
I’m not going there again”
Please don’t take me there again,
Please, not again
Not again
Please don’t take me there again
Not again
I have to ask you, though you mean well,
Not again

A song written by former café members Tim (who later worked in the shop and retired in June), and Sarah in the mid 80s. Tim says there was a song written for all café members and this was a spare dedicated to customers. It was sung to the tune of ‘The Boxer’ by Simon & Garfunkel’.

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