In Bangladesh

I like your new outfit You look really smart mate One could almost say You're a real fashion plate. Wearing new clothes can give You real bird pulling power. Over in Bangladesh they pay Just forty eight pence an hour. That's where are a lot of Our cheap clothes are made, In a modern variation of The sweated labour trade. Its not just the Cheap Shops In this exploitation game Some of the Designer Firms Are involved just the same. Bangladesh is too far away For us to really worry And besides modern life Moves at such a great hurry. Wearing cheap clothes Can feel so very nice At times we should remember Somebody pays theprice: Sometimes in the shop we Could maybe give a thought To the true cost of the gear We’ve just so casually bought In the last freported factory fire Over a hundred maimed or dead, Just ordinary Bangladeshis Trying to earn their daily bread.