Orgreave (Truth & Justice)

 

Standing on a picket line in 1984

Orgreave on a summer’s day, we all knew the score

I am just an honest man, I never broke the law

Until the law tried to break me and now I’m not so sure

 

Orgreave Truth and Justice

Will never go away

The coppers broke the law

So the coppers have to pay

In a court of British law

It’s time we had our say

Orgreave Truth and Justice

Every dog must have its day

 

The truth is that the miners were striking for a cause

the police turned up armored like a fascist dictator’s force

Baton, shield and helmet – sat up on their high horse

They charged at lawful picket lines showing little or no remorse

 

CHORUS

 

BREAK

 

Justice must be served for the injuries sustained

On a peaceful miner’s picket that will be forever stained

By the action of mounted criminals who have never been detained

On that day in summer fields when malice and violence reigned

 

CHORUS

 

I stood on that picket line in 1984

Orgreave on a summer’s day, we didn’t know the score

We were just honest men who never broke the law

If you don’t give us justice – what the hell is the law for?

 

CHORUS

 

Orgreave Truth and Justice

Every dog must have its day