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Them days we were glad to have
the price of a cup of tea.
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Ay! A cup of cold tea!
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Without milk or sugar!
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Or tea!
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In a cracked cup and all.
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Oh, we never used to have a cup! We used
to have to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper!
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The best we could manage was to
suck on a piece of damp cloth.
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But you know, we were happy in
those days, although we were poor.
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Because we were poor!
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My old dad used to say to me:
"Money doesn't bring you happiness, son!"
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He was right!
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I was happier then and I had nothing!
We used to live in this
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tiny old tumble-down house with
great big holes in the roof.
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House! You were lucky to live in a house!
We used to live in one room,
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all twenty-six of us, no furniture,
half the floor was missing,
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we were all huddled together in
one corner for fear of falling.
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You were lucky to have a room! We used
to have to live in the corridor!
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Oh, we used to dream of living in a corridor!
Would have been a palace to us!
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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,