Lyrics - How To Get Your Band On Television by Chumbawamba

Product sells,
People die
Same manipulation wrapped in lies
Give a little money and play your rock and roll
The biggest prizes to the biggest fools
In keeping with the fashion for charity, not change
Here's our contribution: we've called it
Slag
Aid
For every pop star that we slag off today
A million pounds will be given away!
Paul
Mc
Carney -
Come on
Down!
With crocodile tears to irrigate this ground
Make of
Ethiopia a fertile paradise
Where everyone sings
Beatles songs and buys shares in
EMIFreddie
Mercury -
This is
Your
Life!
Thank the
Lord that you were born white
And thank apartheid for this wonderful opportunity
To peddle your hypocrisy in
Sun
City
David
Bowie -
The
Price is
Right!
A suitful of compassion and a gobful of shite
Still the voices of those who doubt
Coca-
Cola for the peasants to end this drought
Jagger and
Richards -
Game for a
Laugh!
Dancing us down the garden path
To a place where money grows on trees
Where cocaine habits are financed by hunger and disease
Ask the puppet-masters who pull the strings"
Who makes the money when the puppets sing?"
Ask the corporations "
Where does the money go?"
Ask the empty bellied children "
What are we singing for?"
A
Cliff
Richard - 3,2,1!
The
God who remains when the religion's gone
Cliff, we've got a special surprise for you today
So come closer, step this way
Cliff, you're such an example of moral worth
Such a purist saint come to bless our
Earth
That on behalf of our viewers watching telly
And on behalf of the millions with empty bellies
We're donating something special that we're all going to like:
Cliff
Richard, we're going to nail you up to a cross tonight!!
I know there must be more
Than giving just a little bit more
When half of this world is so helplessly poor
Starved of a real solution -
Only charity and tradition
And the cycle of hungry children
Will keep on going round...

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