Name: Firm: But Fair?
Duration: P00H04M19S
Description: Written by Paul Henderson after the scandalous attack on elective home education in England following Graham Badman's ill advised report and it's surrounding insidiously veiled smear campaign. The extended solo section was a perfect setting for Alwyn's wry and immaculately phrased harmonica playing.

Firm: But Fair?

from Unfinished Business by Roll Wyn James

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Written by Paul Henderson after the scandalous attack on elective home education in England following Graham Badman's ill advised report and it's surrounding insidiously veiled smear campaign. The extended solo section was a perfect setting for Alwyn's wry and immaculately phrased harmonica playing.

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I’d love to laugh and sing and dance
On a personal learning quest.
But in here I don’t stand a chance,
With no right to leave my desk.

No right to play, no right to learn,
Nor to talk or walk or inquire.
Without permission from Mr Stern,
The punishment would be dire.

The free have all these rights.
Could a bad man balance them more?
With freedom in my sights,
I’m eyeing up the door.

All the rights they sell
Are the focus of my stare.
I’m longing for the bell,
While being taught at, firm, but ‘fair.’

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from Unfinished Business, released July 31, 2013

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