All In Vain Chumbawamba

"I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish (Repeats) But it's all in vain" (Repeats) Different colors, different faces Different schools in different places Scour the morning papers, all in vain Evening

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

Without Reason Or Rhyme Chumbawamba

"I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain" "It is a great thing that we have an unarmed police force in this country.

Without Reason Or Rhyme (The Killing Of Harry Stanley) Chumbawamba

I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain It is a great thing that we have an unarmed police force in this country.

All Mixed Up Chumbawamba

All Mixed Up Sitting on the shelf when someone called my number With a template in one hand, scissors in the other 'What lump of clay is this?'

The Tennis Racket Chumbawamba

The Tennis Racket Sat with strawberries and cream Listening to all the players scream From right to left and left to right "The ball was in!" "No, it was out!"

The Diggers Song Chumbawamba

they pull down to fright your men in town But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown Stand up now diggers all With spades and hoes and plows stand up now, stand up now With spades

Happiness Is Just A Chant Away Chumbawamba

Happiness Is Just A Chant Away I'm having a wonderful time drunk on communion wine One sin over the seven Sick all over the stairway to heaven Bullshit, bullshit, priests without a pulpit Shake

School Team Chumbawamba

schools But they'd never take me on the bus Although I begged them to Of course they'd all return With talk of Robbo's goals And how little Nobby Forder Took the defense all on his own All the ninety

Jacobs Ladder Chumbawamba

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

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

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

This Girl Chumbawamba

This Girl This girl, she didn't turn out quite the way she was supposed to do This girl, she got bored of all the things they brought her up to say She never meant them anyway This girl, she got

Shipbuilding Chumbawamba

shipbuilding Well, I ask you--the boy said, 'Dad they're going to take me to task 'But I'll be back by Christmas' It's just a rumour that's spread around town Someone said that someone got filled in

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

Piggies In Revolution 9 Chumbawamba

Piggies In Revolution 9 Have you seen the little piggies crawling in the dirt?

Bob Beamon Chumbawamba

Bob Beamon Three steps forward, two steps back Oblivious to all around Psyching up for the big jump Breathing getting deeper Then charging down the track Hitting the board just right All that

Lost In Rome Chumbawamba

Lost In Rome That Thompson and Cram both lost in Rome Was no surprise, when one thinks Of all the rubbish they consumed Those cereals and drinks Lured by big advertising deals Force-fed crap

Smalltown Chumbawamba

And every morning comes too soon All your nights are sleepless Poison arrows To ruin your tomorrows Below suspicion Cafes full of people dressed as spies And all I know Is guilt for being different

Invasion Chumbawamba

got it all worked out, and we give our consent They've got it all worked out, and we give our consent They've got it all worked out for Central America And they've got it all worked out for Africa

Homeless Hotel Chumbawamba

Homeless Hotel Well since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell Down south of Market Street in Homeless Hotel It feels so lonely baby It feels so lonely baby It feels so lonely I could

Timebomb (Jimmy Echo Vocal) Chumbawamba

(Chorus 2) I am a timebomb A ticking ticking ticking timebomb I am a timebomb A ticking ticking ticking timebomb Unattended at the railway station In the litter at the dancehall Sitting pretty near

Timebomb Chumbawamba

(Chorus 2) I am a timebomb A ticking ticking ticking timebomb I am a timebomb A ticking ticking ticking timebomb Unattended at the railway station In the litter at the dancehall Sitting pretty near the

Song Of The Times Chumbawamba

factory lords are brought the labor low And daily are contriving plans to prove our overthrow (Chorus) So arouse you sons of freedom the world seems upside down They scorn the poor man as a thief in

Shock! Horror! Chumbawamba

the Daily Mirror 'The Facts Not The Fiction' boasts The Star The fact is that attacks on Asians and Blacks By people who read this racist crap Are higher than ever before --But you won't find that in

Jack Horner Chumbawamba

Jack Horner You see who's over there in the corner? Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner... I say, I say, I say Why'd Jack Horner sit in the corner?

One-Sided Game Chumbawamba

One-Sided Game With a flick of the boot and a nod of the head The ball goes crashing in the back of the net But the referee and linesman disallow the goal 'Cause the boot's on the other foot, the

Games Were Fun Chumbawamba

Games Were Fun How come all the best athletes Had the poshest kits While the slow, fat, thin, and spotty ones Had shorts that didn't fit?

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

Lay People Chumbawamba

species we are Doesn't matter with which nation we associate Doesn't matter what politics we love or hate We've still got to go to the toilet There's no way of getting 'round this I'm afraid We're all

Tills Ring, Crowds Cheer! Chumbawamba

You like to make investments in your favorite sports Competition pays, talent can be bought So you made it your business To make it a business Now it's all about getting the check Into the back of

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

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?

Tearing Up Zoo Chumbawamba

One place where wild animals meet with human beings is in the zoo. There is a tremendous bonding between zoo animals and their keepers.

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

New York Mining Disaster 1941 Chumbawamba

New York Mining Disaster 1941 In the event of something happening to me There is something I would like you all to see It's just a photograph of someone that I knew Have you seen my wife, Mr.

Enough Is Enough Chumbawamba

We sang and sang to make the peple all unite. Not fight, but fight because the leaders don't think right. You burnt us in the past you know it won't happen again.

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

We Support All Forms of Resistance Against This Ra Chumbawamba

We Support All Forms of Resistance Against This Racist System (Part II) Don't respect your choice of opinion If your choice is a racist system 'Freedom of speech'--it's a worthless cause As long

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

Awake Chumbawamba

Awake There isn't any light at the end of the tunnel Open your eyes, go and have a look There isn't any light at the end of the tunnel If you open our eyes, you might get a surprise It's all staring

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?

One By One Chumbawamba

Pontius Pilate came to our town Up to the dockyards to see the picket line We asked him to help but he just turned around He's the leader of the union now Leader of the union All of our questions

Unilever Chumbawamba

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 the people who work the land Unilever Man-made hunger Soap in

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

Tubby Barlow Chumbawamba

Tubby Barlow Posed like swallows before a dive Five lanes, and on the left hand side Stands Tubby Barlow wet with fear Not quite sure what he's doing there On your marks, get set, and they're in

Salome (Let's Twist Again) Chumbawamba

Fumbled sex in parks?

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 World Turned Upside Down Chumbawamba

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

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