we say blame the teachers don't we send our young to school to be taught the simple rules for decent public-spirited behaviour do we pay such crushing rates to have our children turned to louts we're sick of all this fuss we say blame the teachers or the preachers they're all the same to us
we say blame the preachers what right have they to shake their moral fingers every week at us and call us pharisees and sinners let them wave their holy book where these thugs can take a look we're sick of all this fuss we say blame the preachers or the police they're all the same to us
we say blame the police they're very quick to chase us when we speed in the wrong places or accidentally cross the lights at red but don't they take their time when there's really been a crime we're sick of all this fuss we say blame the police or politicians they're all the same to us
we say blame the politicians they promise and they promise when election time is on us sterner measures to prevent delinquency yet when they win their phoney war they do nothing as before we're sick of all this fuss we say blame the politicians or society they're all the same to us
we say blame society blame the bosses blame the workers blame the bankers blame the forces blame the doctors dentists papers - blame tv blame the jews united nations blame our neighbours friends relations we're sick of all this fuss we say blame society or the world but don't blame us