A quickly penned draft lyric that I imagined being sung to a well-known Lennon & McCartney tune…
Annie McCardle (All the Violent People)
Old Annie McCardle
lies in ICU just after her handbag was snatched
Who will they catch?
Cops say likely no one the mugger was wearing a hood
They were up to no good
All the violent people
We know where they come from
All the violent people
We know where they belong
Junior Wilkins
got kicked in the head by a person he thought was a friend
Where will it end?
He may not recover that’s what all the doctors have said
He could be brain dead
All the violent people
We know where they come from
All the violent people
We know where they belong
Young Jenny Mathers
has another black eye; she ‘walked into a door’ one more time
Boyfriend says she is fine
Some times she leaves home for a week and stays at her Mum’s flat
But he knows she’ll come back
All the violent people
We know where they come from
All the violent people
We know where they belong
Annie McCardle passed-on;
Junior’s life-support was switched-off
on the same day
Young Jenny ran off to her mum’s last week once again
It’s unlikely she’ll stay
All the violent people (ah, so many violent people)
We know where they come from
All the violent people (ah, so many violent people)
We know where they belong