Farewell to the Crown Chumbawamba

Fell his master not by chance Away with pomp and circumstance Come join our merry dance To the rhythm of goodbye Farewell the jewel crown Farewell the velvet gown Watch it all come tumbling down

Irish Joke Chumbawamba

Irish Joke 'Have you heard the one about the Irishman?'

Behave Chumbawamba

Behave Smiling angels on your milk-white shoulders Scared of heaven and accusing whispers Angles always get the worst advice But they can hire the sharpest lawyers Someone's always telling you

Nadzeroon El Babo Chumbawamba

Nadzeroon El Babo Last of the wizards Living in his last retreat Living in the retreating rain forests of Dallemandia Africa Dallemandia Africa Dallemandia Africa If we are to believe the forestry

The Ballad Of Peoplekind Chumbawamba

The Ballad Of Peoplekind Listen, Peep Don't you worry Peoplekind be with you all the way I say farewell now, Peep, OK If we hurry we might just save our day Give them a piece of your peace of

Bowls Chumbawamba

Bowls Bees buzzing, birds singing The jack turning off the crown A lawnmower in the distance The wood coming nicely 'round Sitting near the green just chatting A bad rub, a blocked line Watching

The Diggers Song Chumbawamba

The Diggers Song You noble diggers all stand up now, stand up now You noble diggers all stand up now The wasteland to maintain sin (?)

The Candidates Find Common Ground Chumbawamba

into the same machine The same machine A toast To US bases and nuclear weapons To stopping pickets pulling down fences To the British troops in Northern Ireland To the wonderful victory in the Falklands

The Morning After (The Night Before) Chumbawamba

The Morning After (The Night Before) Unholy Sunday a winter's day Mine is the kingdom Church bells ring a million miles away Forever and ever Nowhere to go, nothing to do But stay here warm in

FAREWELL ANGELINA Bob Dylan

FAREWELL ANGELINA Farewell Angelina The bells of the crown Are being stolen by bandits I must follow the sound The triangle tingles And the trumpet play slow Farewell Angelina The sky is on

Farewell, Angelina Bob Dylan

Farewell Angelina The bells of the crown Are being stolen by bandits I must follow the sound The triangle tingles And the trumpet play slow Farewell Angelina The sky is on fire And I must go.

The Wasteland Chumbawamba

The Wasteland Said the party to the ad-man We'll conjure up a gimmick The way to lead an ass Is with a carrot and a stick Dig down for minorities Promise them concessions Ride in on their backs

Jacobs Ladder Chumbawamba

Jacob's ladder Like rusty old nails At the bottom of the sea Telling no tales For the good of the Admiralty You jump when you're told to Through the open door And the King of Norway He's the

Jacob's Ladder Chumbawamba

Jacob's ladder Like rusty old nails At the bottom of the sea Telling no tales For the good of the Admiralty You jump when you're told to Through the open door And the King of Norway He's the man you all

British Colonialism And The BBC Chumbawamba

British Colonialism And The BBC I'm the boss of the BBC I'm the monkey at the top of the media tree Your version of the riots in Cape Town Comes second-hand from me Chewing and spewing this revolution

British Colonialism & The BBC Chumbawamba

crap dressed up as fact - your soap reality We only want a chance to show the Editor's side Of struggle in the news Closer and closer to the state's eye view And further from the truth Push a microphone

Farewell, Farewell Fairport Convention

Farewell, farewell to you who would hear You lonely travelers all. The cold North winds will blow again The winding road does call. And you will never return to see Your bruised and beaten sons?

The World Turned Upside Down Chumbawamba

The World Turned Upside Down In sixteen forty-nine to St.

Changing Gears Chumbawamba

Changing Gears From the deepest to the highest Battling for the yellow vest Changing gears rapidly Ten seconds to change a wheel King of the Mountains Queen of the flats Sprinting for the line

Farewell Farewell Mary Black

Farewell farewell to you who would hear You lonely travellers all The cold north winds will blow again The winding road does call And will you never return to see Your bruised and beaten sons O I would

We Don't Go To God's House Anymore Chumbawamba

Driving on the bypass to Damascus I saw a preacher trying to hitch a ride With a pair of broken wings And a suitcase full of sins He gathered up his dreams and jumped inside Pulling Malatesta from his

The Fun In Games Chumbawamba

The Fun In Games The little leagues, the spare-time sports Works teams and pub teams Sandwiches for the darts competition Oranges at half time Spare time tennis, scrambling on fields Hustle and

Groundhopping Chumbawamba

Groundhopping Another Sunday match again Another Merseyside clash again It's the 36th this season By my calculations That's when I made the decision To stay in the lower divisions Travelling

An Interlude-Beginning To Take It Back Chumbawamba

An Interlude-Beginning To Take It Back Words to describe Nicaragua of old Cash crops and hunger and US control Coffee and sugar on company land Made to supply what the boss would demand Then one

An Interlude: Beginning To Take It Back Chumbawamba

Words to describe Nicaragua of old Cash crops and hunger and US control Coffee and sugar on company land Made to supply what the boss would demand Then one July morning in seventy-nine Nicaragua decided

Enough Is Enough (Kick It Over) Chumbawamba

We all sit waiting, waiting, for the tide to turn The history lesson that we forgot to learn Smoother words, smoother words Nicer suits, nicer suits Don't be fooled, they're still wearing jackboots

Enough Is Enough Chumbawamba

Enough Is Enough Open your eyes, time to wake up Enough is enough is enough is enough Give the fascist man a gunshot Trying and trying to get this damn thing done. It can't done.

Not The Girl I Used To Be Chumbawamba

Not The Girl I Used To Be (Chorus) Wondering Have I given up dreaming?

Smash Clause 29! Chumbawamba

I've been down to London town to pay a visit to the Queen. Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde, can you tell me what you saw?

In 2 Deep Jam Chumbawamba

In 2 Deep Jam Much of the general population recognizes that the organized institutions do not reflect their concerns or interests or needs They do not feel that they participate meaningfully in

Ashes to Ashes Chumbawamba

Ashes to Ashes The bowler's running in, the batsman lights a fag He keeps a packet handy and it's lodged inside his pad Because it's written in his contract that after every over He has to have

Ah-men Chumbawamba

Ah-men A visionary pause in the cycle When she refused to buy or sell When the daughters of perfect wives Said there must be more sacrifice Needed more than symbolic change More than silent wasting

Colliers March Chumbawamba

Colliers March The summer was over the season unkind In harvest a snow, how uncommon to find The times were oppressive and well it be known That hunger will stronger [?]

A Fairy Tale (Real No-Shit) Chumbawamba

Manfred The Great The great king bashed down his goblet on the oaken table as kings do when they want more wine. Everyone was silent. 'Minstrel the noise of chattering women grates on my ears.

Ever Heard the One About the Pacemaker? Chumbawamba

Ever Heard the One About the Pacemaker?

If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me Chumbawamba

"If it is to be, it is up to me" (Repeats) "And as we sail, blows wild the gale" (Repeats) Sweet flows the water, yellow as royal piss Speech turns to stammer, your lips are too tight to kiss

Why Are We Still In Ireland? Chumbawamba

daily bread The hallowed be our domain For ever and ever the powers use their glory To chain our minds again Our lads growing into our men The unicorn stands triumphant But if we look a little closer

Rich Popstars Make Good Socialists Chumbawamba

Rich Popstars Make Good Socialists Missionaries up from the South Have come to put words in our ignorant mouths Big company muscles flex And we're all pulled along by the seat of our kecks Popstars

Invasion Chumbawamba

of me It's we who write this history We who guard the money-tree We support the companies We stole the colonies And when the system starts to crack We'll have to be ready to give it all back And

Spassky Fischer Chumbawamba

Spassky Fischer Knight to Bishop 4 Next move in the cold war In the Spassky/Fischer battle To see who rules the castle Spassky takes Hungary (and Czecks) Fischer takes Grenada Russian tanks

Let It Be Chumbawamba

Let It Be And this is Steve Wright, we hope that those that lost relatives in this terrible disaster may be able to have a better life as a result of this great record This great record This great

Somebody Else Chumbawamba

Somebody Else For someone to drop that bomb Somebody else must do research for to enable the design of such deadly bombs Somebody else must invest in manufacturing all those dirty fucking stinking

Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire Chumbawamba

Hanging On The Old Barbed Wire If you want to find the general I know where he is I know where he is I know where he is If you want to find the general I know where he is He's pinning another

When I'm Bad Chumbawamba

"They try in vain our minds to chain"(Repeats) I'm up in the stars I'm looking down at the gutter When I'm good, I'm very good But when I'm bad, I'm better (Chorus) Oh barman fill this glass

School Team Chumbawamba

School Team I always wanted to play In the school football team But the coach said I wasn't fast enough I wasn't no good it seemed I used to watch them practice But I never got a game I went

Unilever Chumbawamba

Unilever Whitewash When you don't want to feed the world When you just want to feed your bank balance Wash your guilt away Unilever washes whiter Soap to clean those dirty hands And a slap for

Just Us Mix Chumbawamba

Disagree and discover that there's always someone on hand to beat some sense into you This is justice Some would say that justice stings without regard to right or wrong Some like the Guilford four

Heysel Stadium Chumbawamba

Heysel Stadium Heysel stadium, it's easy to remember How the game continued despite the disaster "With all those millions of viewers, we've got to carry on It would be financial suicide to stop

The Birmingham Six Chumbawamba

British justice is the very best in the world" Tell them, "Well of course it is, for the vested interests it serves" The men were taken to Morkham to be tested for explosives Tests which have since

More Whitewashing Chumbawamba

More Whitewashing Children in school forced to the desk Finger the atlas and study the text Lies and opinion presented as fact Taught to accept, and never to ask Those smiling workers in Ladybird