Lyrics The Council Chamber

MRS. JOHNSTONE
Mickey! Don't shoot Eddie. He's your brother.
You had a twin brother. I couldn't afford to keep both of you.
His mother couldn't have kids. I agreed to give one of you away!

MICKEY
You! You! Why didn't you give me away, Mum!?
I could have been...I could have been him! No!

NARRATOR
And do we blame superstition for what came to pass?
Or could it be what we have come to know as class?
Did you ever hear the story of the Johnstone twins?
As like each other as two new pins
How one was kept and one given away
How they were born, and they died,
On the self same day?