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Tubthumping Lyrics
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 Pissing the night away He drinks a whisky drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sings the songs that remind him Of the good times He sings the songs that remind him Of the better times: 'Oh Danny Boy Danny Boy Danny Boy...' I get knocked down But I get up again You're never going to keep me down Pissing the night away Pissing the night away He drinks a whisky drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sings the songs that remind him Of the good times He sings the songs that remind him Of the better times: 'Don't cry for me Next door neighbour...' I get knocked down But I get up again You're never going to keep me down We'll be singing When we're winning We'll be singing
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04-29-2002
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05-15-2002
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06-13-2002
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03-22-2003
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04-03-2003
"I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down"
I'm wondering if "Danny Boy" isn't a reference to someone
hmm...
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04-27-2003
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04-15-2004
"Tubthumping" is Shouting to Change The World (then having a drink to celebrate).It's stumbling home from your local bar, when the world is ready to be PUT RIGHT...
"Don't let my unseriousness make you think it isn't serious..."
--Phil, anti-road protestor; From The Observer, January 1997
"It is essential to be drunk all the time. That's all: there's no other problem. If you do not want to feel the appalling weight of Time which breaks your shoulders and bends you to the ground, get drunk, and drunk again. What with? Wine, poetry, or being good, please yourself. But get drunk. And if now and then, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the glum loneliness of your room, you come to, your drunken state abated or dissolved, ask the wind, ask the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, ask all that runs away, all that groans, all that wheels, all that sings, all that speaks, what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, will tell you: 'It is time to get drunk!' If you do not want to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk, always get drunk! With wine, with poetry or with being good. As you please."
--Charles Baudelaire, 1866
"I declare a permanent state of happiness"
--Grafitti, Paris 1968
"DRUNKENNESS, noun: A temporary but popular cure for Catholicism."
--Charles T Sprading
"Knock hard, life is deaf."
--Mimi Parent
Yorkshire TV Interviewer: "It's said that you're sick on stage, you spit at the audience and so on. I mean, how could this be a good example to children?"
Malcolm McLaren: "People are sick everywhere. People are sick and tired of this country telling them what to do."
--YTV, 1976
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
--Joseph Stilwell, translation of 'Illegitimati non carborundum'
"In 1990 McDonalds sued two London Greenpeace activists, David Steele and Helen Morris, for distributing a leaflet critical of McDonalds. The two were denied both legal aid and a jury trial; and it was quickly revealed that McDonalds had used spies to collect information on them before the trial. The trial became the longest in British legal history. Despite the Judge ruling against the McLibel Two - but awarding McDonalds only a tiny fraction of their costs - the trial showed that two anarchists could take on one of the biggest capitalist corporations in the world and come out with the vast majority of public opinion on their side. This, in effect, was where the trial was won - as a showcase victory for the notion of People Against Profit."
--Sally Skull, 1997
"I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and he'll never know what's there because he's stupid. I suppose you'll laugh at this, me saying the governer's a stupid bastard when I know hardly how to write and he can read and write and add-up like a professor. But what I say is true right enough. He's stupid, and I'm not, because I can see further into the likes of him than he can see into the likes of me. Admitted, we're both cunning, but I'm more cunning and I'll win in the end even if I die in gaol at eighty-two, because I'll have more fun and fire out of my life than he'll ever got out of his."
--Alan Sillitoe, from 'Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner', 1959
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04-15-2004
"Truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks!
Not compared to how people matter."
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10-13-2004
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10-13-2004
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02-28-2006
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03-03-2006
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03-03-2006
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03-27-2006
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04-07-2006
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04-14-2006
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07-18-2006
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07-26-2006
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08-18-2006
jesus christ i'm getting old
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09-18-2006
First was WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) which included a cover of the BeeGee's New York Mining Disaster, and the released single (never got very far), She's Got All The Friends.
They then released an album, which I forget the name of, which included Jacob's Ladder and Don't Try This At Home.
The third album is the latest one, A Singsong and a Scrap, which is a more folk-music album. Only 4 of the band remain, but they still tour (at least, there were only 4 when I went to see them).
They have also released a couple of singles, one called Her Majesty and one called Tony (about Blair).
04-14-2009
It worked, by them signing to EMI they got songs like Tubthumping played on the radio and people started to notice them, in addition to this two of their other songs also got noticed, Amensia (which probably wasn't a good idea to release as a follow up to their Tubthumping song as the two sound very similar and probably had a lot of people thinking they were one of these bands like 2 Unlimited that release a couple of songs with similar background music, then disappear).
The good thing with Tubthumping, Tubthumper and Amensia though was that it brought the attention of the world to the Liverpool Dockers who were being laid off at the time (although One By One or Good Ship Lifestyle probably would have done better), along with also The KLF/2K's song "K The Millennium".
The song Amnesia was supposed to remind the government that what they were doing to the dockers in the 90's was exactly the same thing that had been done previously to the miners in the 80's - Had Labour forgotten what happened to the Conservatives when they closed Britain's mines down and moved all coal production abroad and now Labour was doing the same thing to the Liverpool dock workers!
Recently though Chumbawamba have split up, the folk music side of Chumbawamba still perform at various folk festivals, and even though I'm not overly impressed by folk music there songs are still quite good and unusual. Danbert Nobacon was the main person behind the pop/punk side of Chumbawamba and he has gone off to form his own group http://www.danbertnobacon.com
04-14-2009
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09-30-2006
YEAH!
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01-11-2007
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05-24-2007
The narrator quite simply states that he keeps getting “knocked down, but [he] get[s] up again.” Nothing’s going to “keep [him] down.” Nothing is going to conquer him, he is strong and independent.
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06-02-2007
"I can't go to town
without an open gate.
So you better open it now."
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