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, bless the wine


She's been born into the wrong time

She keeps nonsense on her mind

She's a poet, she's a builder

She's as bored as bored can be

She's a have-not, she's a know-all

She knows just how to say, Yes

She's skating frozen chaos

Till the no good Gods are dead


But sometimes in the dead of night

Woken by the city lights

She wonders how she keeps alive


This is the girl who

Lost the house which

Paid to the man who

Put up the rent and

Threw out the girl to

Feather his own sweet home


She's a clueless social climber

Likes the wrong side of the bed

She's a pick-me-up and she's a

Drink-to-me in the company of friends

She's tried every variation

She's so common, she's so cold

She's homesick for a future

Can't stomach what she's told


On every street in every town

All her days are up and down

At home among the lost-and-founds


This is the girl who

Lost the house which


Paid to the man who

Put up the rent and

Threw out the girl to

Feather his own sweet home


Here's the good Samaritan

Looks away and carries on

Looks away and carries on


This is the girl who

Lost the house which

Paid to the man who

Put up the rent and

Threw out the girl to

Feather his own sweet home


This is the girl who

Lost the house which

Paid to the man who

Put up the rent and

Threw out the girl to

Feather his own sweet home


This is the girl who

Lost the house which

Paid to the man who

Put up the rent and

Threw out the girl to

Feather his own sweet home


This is the girl who

Lost the house which

Paid to the man who

Put up the rent and

Threw out the girl to

Feather his own sweet home


Thank you for every tree and flower

Thank you for every sky of pool

Thank you I should be every hour

Truly thanking you


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  ...And In A Nutshell   "Celebration, Florida"   "I'm Not Sorry, I Was Having Fun"   1. Good Afternoon and Welcome to White Hart Lane   10. Hmmm...   100. Barry John   101. Running Order   11. Heysel Stadium   12. How Dare They Call It Football?   13. Geoff Hurst's Goal   14. Studmarks on the Summits   15. Drugs   16. A Lament to the Best   17. On the Beach   18. The Bull Fights Back   19. City Man City   2. Chelsea's Back Four   20. Zola Budd   21. Desmond Lynam's Sports Trivia   22. Brian   23. The Fun In Games   24. Games Were Fun   25. Spassky Fischer   26. Horses For Courses   27. That Golden Era   28. Karl Marx Never Made The Squad   29. Disabled Sports   3. We Want Beans Not Goals   30. Mountain Biking   31. Shin-Paring   32. Better   33. Outfoxed   34. Mick McManus' Haircut   35. Ever Heard the One About the Pacemaker?   36. A Regular Guy   37. Leather on Willow, etc.   38. Shoot   39. Bowls   4. Naming Names   40. Dad's Mascot   41. Amereicha   42. One Under Par   43. The Tennis Racket   44. The Worm Turns   45. Sporting Ties   46. Sports   47. Sweet F.A.   48. All's Well At Oakwell   49. Armchair Sport   5. Benefits of the Game   50. Forgotten   51. Lost In Rome   52. Where Did the Chinaman Go?   53. For Those of You Watching in Black and White   54. The Englishman Abroad   55. Ashes to Ashes   56. Changing Gears   57. In Praise of Sumo   58. Frickley   59. Graham Hill   6. The Bowler's Botha, The Batsman's Gooch   60. Isn't It Horrible?   61. Gobsmacked   62. Hopscotch   63. Tills Ring, Crowds Cheer!   64. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Greavsie   65. Indoor League   66. Face Jumping   67. Sunday League Footy   68. Orienteering   69. Jos   7. Punch Drunk   70. Rebel Rebel   71. Bing Oh!   72. Not Sport   73. The Choice Is Yours   74. Awesome Wheels   75. Memories of Shilts   76. Bob Beamon   77. Learning Karate   78. Yup and Under   79. Australian Rules Football   8. Walking the Penine Way   80. Michaelangelo   81. Desmond   82. Polo   83. Eddie Waring   84. Jimmy Hill   85. Whilst Stocks Last   86. One-Sided Game   87. Lester Piggot, Cell Block No. 9   88. Hurling and Imperialism   89. Mad Max   9. Seoul Music   90. P.E.   91. School Team   92. Eddie The Eagle   93. Groundhopping   94. Rip It Up   95. Tubby Barlow   96. The Incompatibility of Sport and Cosmic Consci...   97. It's a Man's Game   98. Shot   99. 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