MELTING POT
(Roger Cook / Roger Greenaway)

Blue Mink, Boyzone; Freddie Notes & The Rudies;
Boris Gardiner; Heaters; Marmalade; Max Romeo; 
Millie Small; The Three Degrees.


I met my girl
She was livin' in the melting pot
I touched her skin
It was greasy from the melting pot
Get yourself a weapon
Cause they slice you up in the melting pot
Well, I don't really have time to talk
But I wish you lots of luck inin the melting pot
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And in the end it's always just some game
The heartbreak, the laughter has all been in vain
Beat up and lied to
For your whole life
Kick you in the head
In the melting pot
The hawks live upstairs
Where the air is clean in the melting pot
They like to swoop down
And gnaw at your brain in the melting pot
Money, sex and power
Jerk you off in the back seat of the melting pot
Then they say I saw you last night
And you sure were looking sweet in the melting pot
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They'd like to buy you off
If they possibly can in the melting pot
With temptation and dreams and persuasion
That's what they got
In the melting pot
Keep you bleeding, begging and snotty here
In the melting pot
Well, don't you dare laugh out loud
They'll take away what ytou got
In the melting pot
CHORUS

additional lyric...

"What we need is a great big melting pot,
Big enough to take the world and all it's got.
Keep it stirring for a hundred years or more,
And turn out coffee coloured people by the score."