Commissions Report
[Intro
The report of the Commission of Inquiry
Has arrived in this colony
The report of the Commission of Inquiry
Has arrived in this colony

[Verse 1]
It touches health and sanitation
Housing, wages, and education
It states that the riots were terrible
And declares Butler was responsible

[Verse 2]
Through the unrest that we had recently
A Commission was sent from the mother country
To investigate and probe carefully
The cause of the riots in this colony
They accumulated a bulk of evidencе
I cannot speak of their competеnce
But I can see independently
The report was a revelation to me
[Verse 3]
They criticize our ex-governor
The beloved Sir Murchison Fletcher
And Howard Nankivell, they said that he
Had uttered speeches wrong to a marked degree
They castigated him severely
Our ex-Colonial Secretary
But all these things just appear to me
An example of English diplomacy

[Verse 4]
They said, through the evidence they had
That the riots started at Fyzabad
By the hooligan element under their leader
A fanatic Negro called Butler
Who uttered speeches inflammatory
And caused disorders in this colony
The only time they found the police was wrong
Was when they stay too long to shoot people down

[Verse 5]
A peculiar thing of this Commission
In the ninety-two lines of dissertation
Is there's no talk of exploitation
Of the worker or his tragic condition
Read through the pages, there is no mention
Of capitalistic oppression
Which leads one to entertain a thought
And wonder if it's a one-sided report