British Colonialism & The BBC Chumbawamba

Bulletin: "Your version of the riots in Cape Town Comes second hand from me Chewing and spewing this revolution For popular TV All your opinions are carefully chosen By what we'll let you see Televised

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

Hurling and Imperialism Chumbawamba

Hurling and Imperialism Hurling, the national sport of Ireland Was banned in 1366 As part of an Anglo-Norman attempt To crush all Gaelic resistance It failed Over six hundred years of British

Zola Budd Chumbawamba

Zola Budd She's a slip of a girl to be out of school She's a product of apartheid She won her spurs under minority rule She's a product of apartheid Afrikaners run the best In bare feet and British

Martini People Chumbawamba

Anytime, anyplace, anywhere There's a wonderful world you can share But only if you're stinking rich enough Martini people are happy people They always smile because they're getting paid To sing and

Remembrance Day Chumbawamba

Remembrance Day The white male complex shows its roots Chanting seig heils, throwing salutes From it's tiny brain to its outsize boots In 100% British sheepskin suits All the fascists gathered

The Birmingham Six Chumbawamba

The Birmingham Six Birmingham, 1974, there occurred a bloody murder Twenty-one people killed by bombs, Britain reeled in horror Within three hours the British State found the first available scapegoats

The Candidates Find Common Ground Chumbawamba

The Candidates Find Common Ground Full employment, slave labor, and schemes An unemployed workforce, the capitalist's dream But lets keep Britain working--either way we must keep Britain working

Jack Horner Chumbawamba

Jack's crime was this, he said, 'teacher you are wrong, the British army killed a lot of people too.

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

BBC JAY Z

[Intro] 億万長者少年クラブ [Hook] Let s work D boy drug dealer look Billionaire D boy drug dealer look Billionaire From the coca leafs to the farmers To the polo fleece to the bombers R.I.P. to Gianni

BBC Ming Tea

Mrs will ya make me tea make love to me put on the telly to the BBC to the BBC yeah yeah yeah BBC 1 BBC 2 BBC 3 BBC 4 BBC 5 BBC 6 BBC 7 BBC 8 Mrs will ya make me tea make love to me put on the telly to

Flesh and Blood and Feelings Chumbawamba

grew, the number of poeple who dug our idea grew too We had a graphic designed who know just what to do he made it plain and simple, red, white, and blue" Red is the blood of the butchered Indians

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

Homophobia Chumbawamba

Mixed in with the piss and beer are bloodstains on the floor From the boy who got his head kicked in a night or two before (Chorus) No!

Homophobia (Sisters Mix) Chumbawamba

Homophobia (Sisters Mix) Up behind the bus stop in the toilets of the street There are traces of a killing on the floor beneath your feet Mixed in with the piss and beer are bloodstains on the floor

Fitzwilliam Chumbawamba

Fitzwilliam Smiles for the cameras as the miners return They say no one has lost and no one has gained But wiser and stronger the people have changed And it won't be the same in the village again

On The Day The Nazi Died Chumbawamba

We're told that after the war The Nazis vanished without a trace But the Italians are facist Still dream of a master race The history books they tell Of their defeat at '45 But they all came out of the

The Day The Nazi Died (1993 Mix) Chumbawamba

The Day The Nazi Died (1993 Mix) They're here and they're there and they're everywhere (Repeat) We're taught that after the war the Nazis vanished without a trace But batallions of fascists still

Invasion Chumbawamba

And in our naivete we believe myths and over consume And give them our consent Dying in the shadow of the USA Let them eat bullshit, make the land pay Make a fast deal with the local elite Then substitute

Seoul Music Chumbawamba

Seoul Music There'll be new events in Seoul '88 Throwing the molotov and the hundred meter loot Hurdling over barricades putting the brick Vaulting over riot cops in the peoples Olympics The people

Sporting Ties Chumbawamba

Sporting Ties The wife she washes the football strip The wife buys my sports socks and irons my kit I lose a golf shoe, the wife looks for it And that's what I call teamwork And that's what I

Let It Be Chumbawamba

record (repeat) Watchers pray in times of trouble Restless by the harbor wall Waiting for the stormy winds to fall With microphone and TV camera Money and tears and a song to sing This is where

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

Education (Part II) Chumbawamba

Education (Part II) They're the bosses of tomorrow They're called the FCS Fascist Conservative Sheep Who claim to know what's best Tied to dad's finances And only just out of school They want

Sometimes Plunder Chumbawamba

Sometimes Plunder Two little ducks sank with a knock knock knock She got twenty on tick and smoked the bloody lot The fridge was bare, the dog was bones Weavin' and a-bobbin' when the tallyman

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

Rip It Up Chumbawamba

Rip It Up Too many crap programs With too many adverts Too much Matthew Engel bullshit And not enough dirt Media and programs All dull and mundane How to fill up space When you've nothing left

Cartrouble Chumbawamba

Cartrouble Big tall courthouse, a clock upon the wall A hammer on the table and a copper on the door A judge in front and a jury at the side A judge in front and a jury at the side A judge in

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

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

How To Get Your Band On Television Chumbawamba

How To Get Your Band On Television I'm the Boss of the company And I've got hunger working for me Listen and you'll begin to understand I built my profits on stolen land It's the economics of

Homophobia Acapella (Live) Chumbawamba

Homophobia Acapella (Live) Up behind the bus stop in the toilets of the street There are traces of a killing on the floor beneath your feet Mixed in with the piss and beer are bloodstains on the

Universal Soldier Chumbawamba

Universal Soldier (Buffy Sainte-Marie, 1966) He's five feet two and he's six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of thirty-one and he's always seventeen He's been a soldier

Tearing Up Zoo Chumbawamba

(reading from the book and tearing of the book) 'Man's genius is a mind with which to reason, and he has the power to draw out the full potential of specific elements.

Mr. Heseltine Meets His Public Chumbawamba

Heseltine you drove into our town The northern rain always drizzling down Shoppers at the window stopped to look As you signed another copy of your book 'Cause you have all the power And you have

Here's The Rest Of Your Life Chumbawamba

Sometimes the Book of Law Is only half the story Means and ends: Deciding where to draw the line Loss or work in Sellafield homes Or the threat of cancers yet to come?

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

Song Of The Government Minister Who Enjoys His Wor Chumbawamba

Song Of The Government Minister Who Enjoys His Work Test the water feel the ground Send the tax collectors round Fill the coffers pound by pound A surer way to keep in line The rabble who spend

Slag Aid Chumbawamba

life Thank the Lord that you were born white And thank MTV for this wonderful opportunity To peddle your hypocrisy David Bowie, the price is right With a suitful of compassion and a gobful of shite

Good Afternoon and Welcome to White Hart Lane Chumbawamba

Good Afternoon and Welcome to White Hart Lane After wading through the flooded toilets To stand on the crumbling concrete steps Wind and rain beating in your face You mumble football's favorite

Studmarks on the Summits Chumbawamba

Studmarks on the Summits Business bought the athletes out With gold medals and role models Drugs and media and national pride Why join in when you can watch it on TV?

Come On Baby (Let's Do The Revolution) Chumbawamba

Come on baby, let's do the revolution Six for the record, and seven for the t-shirt A picture of the band And a ticket for the promised land Watching all the bouncers Systematically beating up the dancers

This Dress Kills Chumbawamba

This Dress Kills I'm Judas Judy, panicking, got everything and nothing Happy birthday mister president I'm here to call your bluff From the top of the world I'm gonna jump, jump, jump I'm so perfectly

Look! No Strings! Chumbawamba

Look, no strings--just paper, glue, and card Hark, the angels sing 'Paste the Lord' That was the Armley tabernacle choir.

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

Enough Is Enough Chumbawamba

Not fight, but fight because the leaders don't think right. You burnt us in the past you know it won't happen again. So black and white take a stand and all try to defend.

Wormkind Chumbawamba

Wormkind Creation, not so much out of the blue as Once upon a time there was a pile of brown And out of that brown grew pips and seeds And worms crawled from out of that brown And life flourished

The Big Issue Chumbawamba

There are those Spend the night Under bridges Over by the river Down in the park Through the winter But there's a house That i know Safe and warm And no-one ever goes there Down where the

Rebel Rebel Chumbawamba

Rebel Rebel Every one of them, one in a million Blaze a trail and tear up the past Thank heaven for devils and sporting rebels Count the black sheep, and stuff the rest Shoot your mouth off, get