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[[Category:Morrissey Lyrics]] [[File:I-have-forgiven-jesus.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] {{Songbox | Name = The Slum Mums | Album = [[Swords]]<br>[[I Have Forgiven Jesus (single)|I Have Forgiven Jesus (CD2)]] | Length = 3:24 | Writer = [[Writer::Morrissey]] / [[Writer::Boz Boorer]] / [[Writer::Gary Day]] | Producer = [[Producer::Jerry Finn]] | Recorded = Circa late 2003 | Release = December 2004 | ArtistType = Morrissey }} ==Information== The digital download of the [[Swords]] album featured a 'new' edit (3:20) of this track which removed the child crying. == Lyrics == <poem> Six filthy children from six absent fathers and then you turn to us for succour because you think we're just suckers We may be welfare, oh yeah, but we don't care and we're paid to despise your council house eyes You can change your name and you can bleach your skin camouflage your accent so that even you don't recognise it But you won't escape from the slum mums because you are one because you live and breathe like one And the Labour government can't stand the slum mums It's ingrained underneath your fingernails The office of the Social Service is strategically placed in a dowdy, rowdy part of town to discourage you from signing We make you feel as if you're whining when you claim what's legally yours You can change your name and you can bleach your skin camouflage your accent so that even you don't recognise it But you won't escape from the slum mums because you are one because you live and breathe like one And the Labour government can't stand the slum mums It's ingrained underneath your fingernails Take you and your rat pack brood to the long grass of the meadow administer seven doses lethal and illegal which may render you elsewhere </poem> {{CommonSongSections | Artist = Morrissey | Song = {{#replace:{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}| (single)|}}| (song)|}}}}

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