Purple Fleeces
Sat in Tesco’s Car Park waiting for my wife to return to me
Having just popped in to buy some bread some milk
Some cheese some eggs and something for our tea
I looked around to see what I could see
And I saw men in a car parked next to me there were
Chorus A:
Two men in purple fleeces drinking cider
Two men in purple fleeces smoking cigarettes
Two men in purple fleeces drinking cider
Two men in purple fleeces smoking cigarettes
I was surprised to see two men
In matching fleeces in my vicinity
But what surprised me more another man
Returned from store then there were three
I was suspicious of these men in purple fleece
But not enough to warrant calling the police for
Chorus B:
Three men in purple fleeces drinking cider
Three men in purple fleeces smoking cigarettes
Three men in purple fleeces drinking cider
Three men in purple fleeces smoking cigarettes
And as I start to care
What these three men are doing there
A label reading Tescos on the fleece I see
So it is clear that they are working here
But in what capacity?
Some kind of sub contract is implied
One where a purple fleece is supplied for
Chorus B
My wife comes back we drive away but
I think about those men all day what did they do
Had they been there to fix the lights
Build a display of ladies tights or unblock the loo
And should they really have been drinking and smoking there Especially in Tescos branded thermal wear those
Chorus B
By Jeff Japers
