Politics, Balladry: Screw 'em over and make 'em pay

I'm anything but musical as a rule, but I've had an idea nagging at me for a couple of days to take O'er the Hills and Far Away and turn it into a protest song, and this morning I hit on a lyric that fits the original tune. 

The Original (TW: violent combat scenes)

If anyone has any thoughts, or lyrics that'll scan better, I'd appreciate comment. (For non-Brits, 'King Iain' is Iain Duncan Smith, the minister for misery).

Screw ‘Em Over and Make ‘Em Pay (aka the Decision-Maker’s Lament)

(To the tune of O’er the Hills and Far Away, with apologies to John Tams)

 

Chorus:

O'er the hills and o'er the way

Through austerity and come what may

King Iain Commands and We Obey,

Screw ‘em over and make ‘em pay

 

Here's thirty silver on the drum

To those who volunteer to come,

To 'list and shaft the poor today

Screw ‘em over and make ‘em pay

 

Through recession, poverty and hell,

False truths and hate, are ours to sell,

We’ll press and screw the poor today,

Screw ‘em over and make ‘em pay

 

When Evil stalks upon the land

I'll neither hold nor stay me hand

But fight to aid the rich today,

Screw ‘em over and make ‘em pay

.

Paul Dacre twists the truth today,

The Mail needs hatred, it’s their way.

We’ll demonise the poor some way,

Screw ‘em over and make ‘em pay

 

The bloody crips, they know the law,

Our Atos champion they laid low.

But Maximus will roll our way,

Screw ‘em over and make ‘em pay

 

Let kings and tyrants come and go,

I'll stand adjudged by what I know.

A tyrants life I'll ne'er gainsay.

Screw ‘em over and make ‘em pay

.

Now time has past and fortune gone,

King Iain’s legacy is none,

I screwed the poor, I’ll rue the day,

They threw me out and made me pay.

 

Chorus:

O'er the hills and o'er the way

Through austerity and come what may

King Iain Commands and We Obey,

Screw ‘em over and make ‘em pay

 

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