Written for our Ballads of Dundee Buroo gig last autumn, to be sung to the tune of the Lambeth Walk:
‘Looking good, you been away?’
‘Outside the buroo’, you’ll hear me say
‘Helping with all I can, and
Getting the Dundee Buroo tan’
Every stroppy Dundee Lass
Get yourself up off yer arse
Come on you bolshie man, and
Let’s get the Dundee Buroo tan
Don’t let the DWPsy
Do as they darn well pleasy
Let’s all of us make our way there.
Go there, stay there
Once we get down Wellgate way
We’ll make sure we have our say
We’re gonna scupper their plan, while
Getting the Dundee Buroo tan – Eh!
scottish unemployed workers' network 
Dundee Buroo
What can I do ?
Ye mak a man sae weary,
With aye your rules an
Work Coach fools,
Their faces dour an dreary
How came it that a Scotsman
Born under the saltire blue,
Should have to live by English rules,
And suffer by them too ?
What do I care a Dundee man,
For rules in London made ?
Why must I scrape to sassenachs
To gie some pennies of aid ?
To sign their scripts and bow the knee,
And speaking quiet and meek,
Gie them all the details of my
Jobsearch for the week,
Ach man ! It seems sae wrong to me
No sooner out the door,
Than I see the Dundee Buroo,
An there I am once more !
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