Match-boys

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Take the coal
And the bitter taste
And swallow it,

Take the match
From the match-boys
And light it,

And when they tell us
To be quite
Light the coal,

Let them feel it
The way that we feel
The burn we feel,

The hurt they gave
All because we
Fought back.

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