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Artist/Band: Chumbawamba
Lyrics for Song: Why Are We Still In Ireland?
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Chumbawamba



Our settlers calling our kingdom great

Our banners raised on high

Baptized with the tide of history

That won't lie down and die

Words from our own good book to help us get by

The sacrifice of our 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 it's chained like a slave

The lion was crowned king of this land

That it's only ever seen from behind bars in a cage

This history of the winning side written on every page

It's not as simple as being mislead, as us not wanting to see

That most of us are born losers in the great society

Fed on a diet of how grand things used to be

An empire, two world wars, and Wimbly '66

But a Gordon Banks save couldn't save our ship

We were sinking like a brick

Till we were washed ashore in the South Atlantic

The unicorn stands triumphant

But if we look a little closer it's chained like a slave

The lion was crowned king of this land

That it's only ever seen from behind bars in a cage

This history of the winning side written on every page

And how can we as a people be so blind

To taking so much but to close our minds

To be so afraid of stepping over the line

To bury our heads in the sands of time

To champion those who take our everything

And pretend that none of this is happening

To turn away and stop wondering how things could be any different

Living in the hope of a promise of a land fit for heroes' needs

With the reason that if we got sod all

Then at least we're white and free

Hiding behind hand-me-down bigotry



A nation of jurors judging others by the color of a book

That was written for us on our behalf

'Cause we can't be bothered to look

Beyond the headlines written verbatim by government crooks

And tell me when is a lie not a lie?

When it's told by someone who owns the truth

And when is a joke not a joke?

When the punchline is the Union Jackboot

When is a war not a war?

When those who started it know it can't be won

And when is a country not a country?

When it's partitioned and ruled by British guns

England, oh England, I'll never sing your praise

For all the blood you shed in long-gone days

You still can't put your mind to changing your ways

And while Britain's first and virtually its last

Remaining colony is fighting with its very life

To bring this monster to its knees

We can't see the wood through the trees who the monster is

And how could we as a people be so blind

To taking so much but to close our minds

To be so afraid of stepping over the line

To bury our heads in the sands of time

To champion those who take our everything

And then pretend that none of this is happening

To turn away and stop wondering how things could be so different

The unicorn stands triumphant

But if we look a little closer it's chained like a slave

The lion was crowned king of this land

That it's only ever seen from behind bars in a cage

Do we stand against the tide or still pretend we're the master race?

Do we stand against the tide or still pretend we're the master race?


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Chumbawamba


Chumbawamba
"Other Songs - Chumbawamba"


1. A Man Walks Into A Bar
2. Anti-Nazi Song
3. Dumbing Down
4. Give The Anarchist A Cigerette
5. I Get Knocked Down
6. Jacob's Ladder
7. Mary Mary
8. On Ebay
9. On The Day The Nazi Died
10. Shake Baby Shake
11. Tony Blair
12. Tubthumpinn'
13. 1. Good Afternoon And Welcome To White Hart Lane
14. 10. Hmmm...
15. 100. Barry John
16. 101. Running Order
17. 11. Heysel Stadium
18. 13. Geoff Hurst's Goal
19. 14. Studmarks On The Summits
20. 16. A Lament To The Best
21. 17. On The Beach
22. 19. City Man City
23. 2. Chelsea's Back Four
24. 22. Brian
25. 23. The Fun In Games
26. 25. Spassky Fischer
27. 27. That Golden Era
28. 3. We Want Beans Not Goals
29. 30. Mountain Biking
30. 31. Shin-Paring
31. 32. Better
32. 36. A Regular Guy
33. 38. Shoot
34. 39. Bowls
35. 42. One Under Par
36. 43. The Tennis Racket
37. 44. The Worm Turns
38. 45. Sporting Ties
39. 47. Sweet F.A.
40. 48. All's Well At Oakwell
41. 49. Armchair Sport
42. 50. Forgotten
43. 51. Lost In Rome
44. 54. The Englishman Abroad
45. 55. Ashes To Ashes
46. 56. Changing Gears
47. 57. In Praise Of Sumo
48. 58. Frickley
49. 6. The Bowler's Botha, The Batsman's Gooch
50. 60. Isn't It Horrible?
51. 61. Gobsmacked
52. 62. Hopscotch
53. 63. Tills Ring, Crowds Cheer!
54. 64. The Rise And Fall And Rise Of Greavsie
55. 65. Indoor League
56. 66. Face Jumping
57. 69. Jos
58. 7. Punch Drunk
59. 70. Rebel Rebel
60. 72. Not Sport
61. 77. Learning Karate
62. 78. Yup And Under
63. 79. Australian Rules Football
64. 8. Walking The Penine Way
65. 80. Michaelangelo
66. 82. Polo
67. 83. Eddie Waring
68. 84. Jimmy Hill
69. 85. Whilst Stocks Last
70. 86. One-Sided Game
71. 88. Hurling And Imperialism
72. 89. Mad Max
73. 90. P.E.
74. 91. School Team
75. 92. Eddie The Eagle
76. 93. Groundhopping
77. 94. Rip It Up
78. 95. Tubby Barlow
79. 96. The Incompatibility Of Sport And Cosmic Consciousness
80. 97. It's A Man's Game
81. 98. Shot
82. 99. Back Home
83. A Fairy Tale
84. A Morality Play
85. Act With Mother
86. Adversity
87. After Shelley
88. Ah-Men
89. All In Vain
90. Always Tell The Voter What The Voter Wants To Hear
91. Amereicha
92. An Interlude-Beginning To Take It Back
93. An Psalm
94. Asleep
95. Awake
96. Awesome Wheels
97. Babbernation
98. Because I'm A He
99. Benefits Of The Game
100. Bing Oh!
101. Bob Beamon
102. British Colonialism And The Bbc
103. Can't Think - Must Work
104. Cartrouble
105. Catastrophe Reality
106. Chase Pcs Flee Attack By Own Dog
107. Coca-Colanisation
108. Colliers March
109. Come On Baby
110. Comic-Tragic-Magic
111. Commercial Break
112. Dad's Mascot
113. Declaring Peace
114. Desmond
115. Disagreement
116. Does God Go To The Toilet?
117. Don't Try This At Home
118. Drugs
119. Dutiful Servants And Political Masters
120. Education
121. Ever Heard The One About The Pacemaker?
122. Farewell To The Crown
123. Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die' Rag (Country Joe And The Fish, 1967)
124. Fight The Alton Bill!
125. Fitzwilliam
126. Flesh & Blood & Feelings
127. Flowers
127. Football Song
127. For Those Of You Watching In Black & White
127. Fuck Off - Rip Off
127. God Save The Queen
127. Graham Hill
127. Harry Goldthorpe
127. Heartbreak Hotel
127. Her Majesty
127. Here's To The Rest Of Your Life
127. Hey! You! Outside! Now!
127. Home With Me
127. Horses For Courses
127. House Plants
127. How Dare They Call It Football?
127. How To Get Your Band On Television
127. I Still Haven't Found What I Was Looking For
127. I'm A Winner, Baby
127. I'm Thick
127. If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me
127. In 2 Deep Jam
127. Insectkind
127. Invasion
127. Irish Joke
127. Isolation
127. Jack Horner
127. Jam Tomorrow
127. Jingle Smells
127. Just A Form Of Music
127. Just Us Mix
127. Justice / Injustice
127. K-2 (Indian Restaurant)
127. Karl Marx Never Made The Squad
127. Kinnochio
127. Kiss, Kiss, Kiss
127. Knit Your Own Balaclava
127. Last Taxi Ride
127. Laughing (Never Stopped Mix)
127. Leather On Willow, Etc.
127. Lest We Forget
127. Lester Piggot, Cell Block No. 9
127. Let It Be
127. Liberation
127. Lying In The Dirt
127. Man Papers His Crack
127. Mannequin
127. Martini People
127. Memories Of Shilts
127. Mick Mcmanus' Haircut
127. More Whitewashing
127. Mothful
127. Mr Heseltine Meets His Public
127. Nadzeroon El Babo
127. Naming Names
127. Nuclear Power? No Thanks!
127. On Ilkley Moor Baht'at
127. One Green Hill
127. One Way System
127. Orienteering
127. Outfoxed
127. P. E.
127. Passenger List For Doomed Flight #1721
127. Piggies In Revolution 9
127. Plastic Bullets
127. R.T.Z. & B.P... Why?
127. Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up
127. Remembrance Day
127. Reuters (1977)
127. Rich Popstars Make Good Socialists
127. Rubens Has Been Shot!
127. Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart
127. Salt Fare, North Sea
127. Saying No
127. Scare City
127. Seoul Music
127. Seven Days
127. Sewing Up Crap
127. She's Got All The Friends That Money Can Buy (Single Version)
127. Shipbuilding (1983)
127. Shock! Horror!
127. Slag Aid
127. Slap!
127. Smash Clause 28!
127. Somebody Else
127. Song For Len Shackleton
127. Song Of The (Now Determined) Mother
127. Song Of The Government Minister Who Enjoys His Work
127. Song Of The Hardworking Community Registration Officer
127. Sports
127. Stagnation
127. Stitch That (Country & Western Version)
127. Strike! (Barnsley 3 Man Utd. 2 Mix)
127. Sugar Daddy
127. Sunday League Footy
127. Tearing Up Zoo
127. The Abcs Of Anarchism
127. The Ballad Of Peoplekind
127. The Best Is Yet To Come (Acoustic Version)
127. The Birmingham Six
127. The Bull Fights Back
127. The Candidates Find Common Ground
127. The Choice Is Yours
127. The Cutty Wren
127. The Health & Happiness Show
127. The Morning After
127. The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Jerry Springer
127. The Police Have Been Wonderful
127. The Sun/scum
127. The Tree Of Knowledge
127. The Wasteland
127. There's No Need To Vote Nf When There Are Twelve Tory Fascists In The
127. Thorn-Emi Lighting
127. Three Years Later
127. Tiananmen Square
127. Timebomb (Jimmy Echo Vocal)
127. Times Of Crisis
127. Today's Sermon
127. Top Of The World
127. Ugliest Part Of The Body
127. Ulrike
127. Unilever
127. Universal Soldier (1966)
127. Uranium Bribery Never Fails
127. We Support All Forms Of Resistance Against This Racist System (Part II
127. When Fine Society Sits Down To Dine
127. When I'm Bad
127. Where Did The Chinaman Go?
127. Why Are We Still In Ireland?
127. Without Reason Or Rhyme [The Killing Of Harry Stanley]
127. World Turned Upside Down
127. Wormkind
127. Younger Moralists
127. Zola Budd