Australian Rules Football Chumbawamba

Australian Rules Football Both players and watchers, No-one knows the rules That's what makes the game so great "Just get out there And slug your opponent!"

How Dare They Call It Football? Chumbawamba

How Dare They Call It Football?

Hmmm... Chumbawamba

Outside the ground at Luton Town A crazy opportunist has sprayed upon a wall A simple proclamation for all to read "Revolution is a better game than football"

The Englishman Abroad Chumbawamba

jack of 'em Stupid, drunken, gobby toughs No excuse is good enough Arrogant, ignorant, insensibly pissed When you've nothing to prove, you prove it with your fists This is England's chief export Football

Frickley Chumbawamba

Frickley Frickley in South Yorkshire, a small mining town Where once the riot coppers beat the pickets to the ground Has a football team, and a stand full of fans Who love their game and who love

Sweet F.A. Chumbawamba

In the light of the ignorance and misplaced fear Of the panicked bosses of the Football League It isn't surprising that hugging and kissing Are banned on account of the threat of AIDS It isn't surprising

Michaelangelo Chumbawamba

Michaelangelo Michaelangelo was a genius Artist, architect, physician The darling of the Florentine scene Inventor, scientist, mathematician But less well-known are his regular stints With Florence football

Shoot Chumbawamba

Shoot I heard that in the First World War The soldiers called a truce For a Christmas game of football Instead of fighting their pointless war Instead of fighting their pointless war Pointless

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

One-Sided Game Chumbawamba

'Cause the boot's on the other foot, the scorer is a girl All the men they get together Squawking, balding birds of a feather The old boys club is under siege So they'll never have a woman in the Football

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

Mad Max Chumbawamba

There'll be the Maxwell League And the Maxwell Cup The Maxwell Trophy For Maxwell clubs Maxwell United and Maxwell Town Who only play at Maxwell grounds Mister, can we have our football back?

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Greavsie Chumbawamba

Sitting on the bench, he starts another drink Drowning his sorrows watching Geoff Hurst's hat-trick The pressures of success led him to the bottle Now famous for his drinking, when once it was his football

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

Sewing Up Crap Chumbawamba

I don't know (Repeats) Chain, chain, chain (Repeats) A cut-price empire Clean-cut lines A perfect body And a dirty mind The rules of this game Say we all look the same Chain, chain, chain

Smalltown Chumbawamba

of people dressed as spies And all I know Is guilt for being different It's always raining stones There's a killer in the home In a small town Everybody looks the same There are unwritten rules

Tubby Barlow Chumbawamba

But Baz Wilson's already in Got his intermediate in life saving The captain of the football team Idol of every young girl's dream Drags Tubby towards the rope But Tubby's confused and grips his throat

Younger Moralists Chumbawamba

around When cupboards and bellies are full fit to burst Let the enemy do his worst (Repeat chorus) Here in written word, in song, in coversation Courtrooms sit in anticipation of the reading of the rules

Let It Be Chumbawamba

the hearts of the millionaires For the charts and the state machine Consumers of the world agree Nothing sells like disaster, let it be Greed and lies and economics A captains' crew to make the rules

Flesh and Blood and Feelings Chumbawamba

very quiet, I felt a lot embarrassed I didn't like going in public toilets At school I skipped showers The State separatism of an all-boys school I couldn't relate to girls, there were different rules

Tubthumping Chumbawamba

We'll be singing When we're winning We'll be singing I get knocked down But I get up again You're never going to keep me down Pissing the night away He drinks a whisky drink He drinks a vodka d...

Just Look At Me Now Chumbawamba

Just Look At Me Now Don't tell me lies I want it all (Repeat) I don't need fingerprints So button up your coat Before you catch your death of cold Throw away your books They're building windmills...

Amnesia Chumbawamba

Goodbye to the summer Sold down the river Unhappy ever after Well did you ever? Did you ever reach for the glued-down penny? Same old joke and it's not funny Burns are red bruises blue Out with th...

Brian Chumbawamba

Brian It's all about getting the ball in the back of the net, Brian I'm as sick as a parrot, Brian I'm over the moon, Brian Well, I think the lads were well worth a point, Brian At the end of the...

Bella Ciao Chumbawamba

The world is waking outside my window Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao Drags my senses into the sunlight For there are things that I must do Wish me luck now, I have to leave you Bella ...

Tubthumping Chumbawamba

We'll be singin' when we're winnin' We'll be singin' I get knocked down but I get up again You're neva gonna keep me down I get knocked down but I get up again You're neva ...

Top Of The World (Ol?Ol?Ol? Chumbawamba

Top Of The World (Ol?Ol?Ol? Words on a postcard from far away Spoke of a time long ago Laughed ourselves daft on that Saturday Singing here we go I'm a taxi driver I'm a postal worker I'm an offi...

Shhh Chumbawamba

Shhh (Chorus) Hear nothing, see nothing, feel nothing, say nothing Hear nothing, see nothing, feel nothing, say nothing L A U G H I N G laughing L A U G H I N G laughing Just when you figured it ...

The Choice Is Yours Chumbawamba

The Choice Is Yours Watch Ben Johnson on TV Or try to beat your own PB The choice is yours You decide Get square eyes Or get outside!

Drip Drip Drip (Country & Western Version) Chumbawamba

Drip Drip Drip (Country & Western Version) Eat, sleep, and crap For to prey on your needs Down a dark street Backwater Leeds I seen yer comin' Come in, lads! You seen the ad? Too bad, bad, bad Wh...

Shake Baby Shake Chumbawamba

Shake Baby Shake Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it Shake, baby, shake the memories away Shake it, shake it Shake this grown-up Barbie Doll of a day Shake it, shake it She gets Hugh Hefner, b...

Shot Chumbawamba

Shot All gathered 'round the 18th tee With pringle and tartan and shooting sticks Binoculars, poised, ready to use Watching, waiting, there it goes! Great shot! Great shot! What a shot! Great sho...

City Man City Chumbawamba

City Man City City, city, city City, Man city Living in the city Manchester city Colin Bell, Frannie Lee Neil Young, Mike Summerbee Rodney Marsh, Alan Oakes Tommy Booth and Tony Book City, city, ...

Lie Lie Lie Lie Chumbawamba

Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie I failed the audition for celebrity squares Your life is a dream, then you wake up You watch Friend...

Isolation Chumbawamba

Isolation Come out of our corners Keep moving, keep changing, start working together We can change this world by changing ourselves Make our hands one hand Resist and realize We are not isolated ...

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 ca...

Pass It Along Chumbawamba

Pass It Along Come on, come on, come on Send this song to twenty people Add your name, don't break the cycle Pass it along by word of mouse Save the world, don't leave the house Because a virtual...

Heartbreak Hotel Chumbawamba

Heartbreak Hotel Well, since my baby left me... I found a new place to dwell... It's down... just a minute... We don't want to go on... Well, since my baby left me Well, I found a new place to dw...

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 priests...

Scapegoat Chumbawamba

Aftershave and smoke And the same unfunny jokes They say they'll take you "Anywhere But there" Believe every half-whispered Half-remembered lie Where truth is a luxury They can't afford to buy Sc...

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 ho...

Look! No Strings! Chumbawamba

Look! No Strings! Look, no strings--just paper, glue, and card Hark, the angels sing 'Paste the Lord' That was the Armley tabernacle choir. Next we'll be hearing the true story of an American hou...

Moses With A Gun Chumbawamba

Moses With A Gun Oh, Charleton Heston, your father's favorite son Walks in whistling Casey Jones Moses with a gun Oh, Charleton Heston, your father's favorite son Round and round and ad infinitum

Outsider Chumbawamba

Outsider I'm not alone, you're not alone You see me, you hear me There are millions think just like me

Never Let Go Chumbawamba

Never Let Go These red azaleas Never grew so tall This well of loneliness Could rise and drown us all (Chorus) There is no right or wrong Things fall as they do Pulled by the sun and the moon For...

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. Come shoot the f...

Tubthumping Chumbawamba

We'll be singing ,When we're winning We'll be singing I get knocked down but i get up again you're never gonna keep me down I get knocked down but i get up again you're never gonna keep me down ...

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...

Heaven/Hell Chumbawamba

Heaven/Hell I'm not guilty, I have nothing to say, uhm, I'm innocent! (Chatter) I want a revolution! When? Now! Tall as houses Small as spiders Undefined this buzz inside us (Chorus) Tightrope wa...

Mouthful of Shit Chumbawamba

Mouthful of Shit (Chorus) Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of shit Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of shit Do something about it (Repeat chorus) Well I'm really back to basics righ...