Lyrics to the badman song

A boy's got to learn,

doesn't he?

So he'll pay more tax, to

pay for me.

Although stealing your freedom

I have to pretend

that I hate,

I really believe that you

all just belong

to the state.

I'm re-

viewing,

Home Education,

to prevent the risk of independent thought.

We're introducing,

new legislation,

so we cart you caring parents off to court.

And a judge will not sit on the fence,

he'll turn you into penitents,

he'll put you in the dock and thence,

the prosecution can commence,

you parents will have no defence,

provided I have evidence...

I think I'd better think it out again.

The courts take too long,

anyway.

Could all go wrong,

anyway.

I have to find something

that does not rely

on the truth,

so I think that I'll start

by reversing the

burden of proof.

I'm re-

viewing,

Home Education,

you'll have to prove that you comply with every rule.

I'll make you drown in

administration,

you'll just give up and send your children back to to school.

And I'll hire ten thousand functionries

to grind you down by small degrees,

they won,t need any expertise,

just forms to fill and powers to sieze,

but the cash we need to pay for these,

we wasted on the squeeze...

I think I'd better think it out again.

We can't afford to

pay for it,

so we'll have to being it in

bit by bit.

I'll start by convincing

the public home ed

doesn't work.

I'll make them think

Home Education just

makes you a berk.

I'm re-

viewing,

Home Education

I want to prove that school's the only way to go.

Don't underrate my

determination

to prevent you learning things you should not know.

And I'll organise a learning duel,

I think it will be really cool,

each child will sit there on a stool,

the home ed kid will look a fool,

when up against a scoolboy who'll

reveal all he has learned in school,

I think I'd better think it out again.