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A cover of the 1937 Leadbelly song, modernised to reflect the political unrest in Belgium. The rise of the right is causing outsider communities to experience restricted rights to live, work and gain nationality in Belgium. I’m lucky to be white, British and - in the eyes of the powers that be - eligible for Belgian citizenship. Others are not so privileged - I’ve heard plenty of stories. Please, let’s let fascism lie to rest.

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00:00Listen here, people, listen to me, don't try to find your home down in Brussels, me, this is a bourgeois
00:09town, it's a bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all year round.
00:24Me and my wife, Martha, went all over that town, everywhere we go, the people was turning us down, it's
00:33a bourgeois town, Brussels is a bourgeois town, got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all year round.
00:49Me and my wife, Martha, we were standing on the stairs, but a white man said, I'm one more outsider's
00:57up there, he's a bourgeois man, living in a bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the
01:10news all year round.
01:14Let's go.
01:38I said, listen to me, listen to me.
01:43Don't try to find your home down in Brussels, me, this is a bourgeois town, it's a bourgeois town, I
01:55got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all year round.
02:03Me and my wife, Martha, we were standing on the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread
02:23the news all year round.
02:28Me and my wife, Martha, we were standing on the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread
02:48the news all year round.
02:52Me and my wife, Martha, we were standing on the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread
03:13the news all year round.
03:20Me and my wife, Martha, we were standing on the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread
03:39the news all year round.
03:42Me and my wife, Martha, we were standing on the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois town, I got the
03:48bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois town, I got the
03:49bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois town, I got the bourgeois town.
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