Social Services - a poem about children being taken into care
Home from Home
We’re coming to take you away away
We’re coming to take you away
No jokes no laughs or time for tears
You’ll have to come this way
We’re here we’re here we’re here to get you
We’re here to get you away
No door, no walls will keep you here
Your pleas won’t make you stay
Come on come on you little brat
Come on get in our car
No toys no books no personal things
We’re here to take you far
Get out get out you must get out
Welcome to your new home
No mum no dad no brothers or sisters
We hope you feel alone
Cheer up cheer up you must cheer up
What makes you so dejected
No single room, no privacy
Why are you so affected
We give up give up we’ve totally had it
You’ve really been a strange one
No more no more you loner misfit
No more do you need attention
Go on go on away you go
Away you go you go
No tears, no sadness, sense of loss
We’re giving you the toe
Hello hello I’m here again again again I'm here
I want I want my brother and sisters
No doors no walls will keep me out
And I really must insist sir
I’ve come to take them away away
I’ve come to take them away
No ifs or buts or stupid rules
They have to come this way