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Close your eyes and come with me back to 1984 
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We'll take a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes department store 
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The supermarket is busy and the registers make a din 
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The groceries go rolling out and the cash comes rolling in 

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Mary Manning is at the checkout and she's trying to keep warm 
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When a customer comes up to her with a basket on her arm 
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The contents of the basket Mary's future was to shape 
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For the label clearly stated "Produce of the Cape" 

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’I can't check out your oranges missus now won’t you bring them back 
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For they come from South Africa where white oppresses black 
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I'd have it on my conscience and I couldn't sleep at night 
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If I helped support a system that denies black people's rightsâ?� 

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Our union says don't handle them it's the least that we can do 
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We fought oppression here for centuries we'll help them fight it too 
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The managers descended in an avalanche of suits 
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And Mary was suspended 'cause she wouldn't touch the fruits 

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Dunnes Stores, Dunnes Stores, Dunnes Stores 
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In St. Bernard better value beats them all 

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Her friends were all behind her and the union gave support 
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They called a strike and their pickets brought all Dunnes stores to a halt 
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No-one was going to tell the boss, what he bought or sold 
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These women are only workers, they must do as they are told 

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Isn't that just typical of Apartheid’s cruel law 
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It's not just in South Africa, the rich trampling the poor 
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He wouldn't have a boycott, he couldn't give a Tinker's curse 
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It doesn't matter how he fills the shelves so long as he lines his purse 



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The messages came rolling from all around the world 
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For such concern and sacrifice, and for courage brave and bold 
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When fourteen months were over ten women and a man 
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Had helped to raise black consciousness all around the land 

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Clery's in O'Connell Street wouldn't sell South African shoes 
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Bestman sent all their clothes back, Roche's stores their booze 
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Until all South Africa goods were taken off the shelves in Dunnes 
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Mary Manning was down in Henry Street, sticking to her guns 


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Dunnes stores in St. Bernard better value beats them all.