Dunnes Stores Christy Moore

Close your eyes and come with me back to 1984
We'll take a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes
Department store
The supermarket's busy and the registers make a din'
The groceries go rolling out and the cash comes rolling
In

Mary Manning is at the checkout and she's trying to
Keep warm
When a customer comes up to her with a basket on her
Arm
The contents of the basket Mary's future is to shape
But the label clearly stated "Produce Of The Cape"

I can't check out your oranges Mrs, now won't you bring
Them back
For they come from South Africa, where White oppresses
Black
I'd have it on my conscience and I couldn't sleep at
Night
If I helped support the system that denies Black
People's rights

Our union says "Don't Handle Them. It's the least that
We can do
We Fought oppression here for centuries, we'll help
Them fight it too"
The managers descended in an avalanche of suits
And Mary was suspended cos she wouldn't touch the
Fruits