"Algunos cantautores, cuando tocan se imaginan que son Bob Dylan; yo me imagino que soy The Clash"
Billy Bragg, nacido en Barking, Essex-Inglaterra el 20 de diciembre de 1957, es un cantautor izquierdista muy vinculado al movimiento obrero.
Formó parte del llamado anti-Folk de los años 80. Es un artista influido tanto por el punk-rock (en especial The Clash, se le conoció como el 'one-man-Clash'), como por los cantautores comprometidos, en especial
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
GCG Up in the morning and out to school EmDG Mother says there'll be no work next year GCG Qualifications once the golden rule EmDG are now just pieces of paper
GCG Just because you are better than me EmDG doesn't mean that I'm lazy GCG Just because you are going forwards EmDG doesn't mean I'm going backwards
If you look the part you'll get the job in last year's trousers and your old school shoes The truth is son it's a buyer's market they can't afford to pick and choose
Just because you're better than me doesn't mean that I'm lazy Just because I dress like this doesn't mean I'm a communist
The factories are closing and the army's full I don't know what I'm going to do But I've come to see that in the land of the free there's only a future for the chosen few
Just because you're better than me doesn't mean that I'm lazy Just because you are going forwards doesn't mean I'm going backwards
At twenty-one you're on top of the scrap heap at sixteen you were top of the class All they taught you in school was how to be a good worker the system has failed you don't fail yourself
Just because you are better than me doesn't mean that I'm lazy Just because you're going forwards doesn't mean I'm going backwards