They Don’t Have To Do My Dirty Job

Everybody’s always got an opinion
They all know just how to run this town
I get it from the riff-raff, I get it from the snobs
They don’t have to do my dirty job

Nobody much likes to be a copper
And no one wants to be a copper’s friend
But suddenly I’m popular when someone gets robbed
They don’t have to do my dirty job

All the boys are like their fathers
And all the girls are like their mothers

I’m always in a no-win situation
Though I try so hard to make things square
And old familiar faces can become an angry mob
They don’t have to do my dirty job

All the girls are like their mothers
All the boys are like their fathers

Everybody’s always on the right side
And every villain thinks that he’s been framed
Everybody wants the lowdown but no one wants to dob
They don’t have to do my dirty job