they also did n't cry , but looked on with stony faces , as the dirt covered her grave . i dont think those are quite the lyrics to the gong gong song . `` so you 're a union man now ? '' `` it hit me like a blow that mrs. palmer had hired me to be a whore for her husband . its going to take some time and patience to get anything out of them - theyre as dumb as a doornail . even my so called `` friends '' were laughing along . 