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Steve is from Basildon, he's a hospital porter
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His shift starts in the middle of the night
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He rides in to work on a motorbike
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He doesn't talk much to the patients
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But he gets them where they need to go
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He gets on with all of his collegues though
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Like that surgeon in the templar ward
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Who always says hello
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That surgeon is called Dan
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He grew up in Gloucester
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Ever since he was young, just wanted to help everyone
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He was destined to be a doctor
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He met his girlfriend Rena here at work
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She's a physio
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And she was born in Egypt
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In a small town south of Cairo
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She came to England as a teen with a busted knee
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And when they fixed her up for free
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She knew exactly what she wanted to be
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So she learnt the language and the bones and the muscles
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And studied really hard for the qualifications
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And not long ago got her first placement here at Homerton Hospital
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She eats her lunch with Jill from reception
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Jill comes from Swindon, via Jamaica
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She's a Rastafarian
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She works the desk at A&E
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And you won't believe the things that she's seen
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Or the respect that she has for her team
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There's a paramedic from Portugal
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A pharmacist from Senegal
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A security guard from the Isle of Man
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And a pediatritican from Pakistan
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Faces from different places, religions and races
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All working together under one roof
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So many walks of life and background stories
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All coming together for the sick and the poorly
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Someone's operating and someone's giving birth
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Someone's holding someone else's hand when they pass
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They'll stitch you back together and they'll heal the wounds
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It won't cost you anything at all
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Here at Homerton Hospital
Verse
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There's an orthadox Jew with Australian flu
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Getting his blood pressure checked by a girl from Bangladesh
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There's a kid from the estate, got himself in to a state
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And now a Polish nurse put his arm in to a cast
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And poor uncle Terry slipped in to a coma
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Now he's being looked after by Nula from Rowanda
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And everyone makes jokes about the hospital food
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But to tell you the truth, it's actually pretty good
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And that's down to the chef who comes from Marrakech
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Makes a killer sherpard's pie and feeds hundereds of patients
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Every single night
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Faces from different places, religions and races
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All working together under one roof
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So many walks of life and background stories
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All coming together for the sick and the poorly
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Someone's operating and someone's giving birth
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Someone's holding someone else's hand when they pass
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They'll stitch you back together and they'll heal the wounds
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It won't cost you anything at all
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Here at Homerton Hospital
Outro
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So if you wonder how the world might work while being multicultural
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Come and pay a visit to Homerton Hospital