William Francis, noble lordHis fortune built on sweat and swordBuilt an empire tall as a hillBut he don't have fun and he never willMy, mySees the world so far belowAnd though he tries, he'll never knowFriends to greet the breaking of dayAnd love to pass the night awayMy, myWilliam Francis high and dryWith his paradise deniedMy, myWilliam Francis, lost, aloneA thousand ifs and a heart of stoneHe measures his life in gain and costBut he'll never add up the world he lostMy, myWilliam Francis works us hardBut we'll dance all the way to the knacker's yardHe cannot laugh and he cannot cry'Cause William Francis is cold insideMy, myWilliam Francis high and dryWith his paradise deniedMy, my
Lyrics by Chumbawamba
...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. Back Home A Fairy Tale (real No-shit) A Fine Career A Lament To The Best A Morality Play A Regular Guy Act With Mother Adversity All Fur Coat & No Knickers All The King's Men All's Well At Oakwell Always The Winner Amereicha Amnesia Amnesia (Acoustic Version) Amnesia (Album Version) Amnesia (Done Lying Down Version) Amnesia (Jimmy Echo Version) Amnesia (On Flame With Rock And Roll Version) Amnesia (Philip's Milk of Amnesia Mix) Amnesia (Random Access Memory Loss Mix) Amnesia (Single Mix) Amnesia (Zion Train 359 Amhurst Road Mix) An Interlude-Beginning To Take It Back An Psalm Armchair Sport Ashes To Ashes Asleep Australian Rules Football Awake Awesome Wheels Babbernation Back Home Bad Dog Barry John Be With You Because I'm A He Behave! Bella Ciao Benefits Of The Game Better Big Mouth Strikes Again Bing Oh! Bob Beamon Bowls Brian British Colonialism And The Bbc Bury Me Deep Can't Think - Must Work Catastrophe Reality Celebration, Florida Changing Gears Charlie Chase PCs Flee Attack By Own Dog Chelsea's Back Four City Man City Colliers March Come On Baby Comic-tragic-magic Commercial Break Compliments Of Your Waitress Creepy Crawling Dad's Mascot Declaring Peace Desmond Desmond Lynam's Sports Trivia Disabled Sports Disagreement Does God Go To The Toilet? Don't Pass Go Don't Try This at Home Drip Drip Drip (Country & Western Version) Drip, Drip, Drip Drugs Dumbing Down Dutiful Servants And Political Masters Eddie The Eagle Eddie Waring Education (part I) Education (part Ii) Enough Is Enough Enough Is Enough (Kick It Over) Ever Heard The One About The Pacemaker? Face Jumping Farewell To The Crown Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die' Rag (Country Joe and T... Fight The Alton Bill! Fine Line Fitzwilliam Flesh And Blood And Feelings Flowers Following You Football Song For Those Of You Watching In Black And White Forgotten Frickley Fuck Off - Rip Off Games Were Fun Geoff Hurst's Goal Georgina Give The Anarchy A Cigarette Gobsmacked God Save The Queen Good Afternoon and Welcome to White Hart Lane Graham Hill Groundhopping Hammer Stirrup & Anvil Happiness Is Just A Chant Away Harry Goldthorpe Health & Happiness Show Hear No Bullshit (On Fire Mix) Heartbreak Hotel Heaven, Hell Heaven/Hell Here's The Rest Of Your Life Here's To The Rest Of Your Life Hey! You! Outside Now! Heysel Stadium Hmmm... Homophobia Homophobia (Sisters Mix) Homophobia Acapella (Live) Hopscotch Horses For Courses House Plants How Dare They Call It Football? Hurling And Imperialism I Get Knocked Down I Never Gave Up I Never Gave Up (Cass Mix) I Never Gave Up (Rondo Mix) I Still Haven't Found What I Was Looking For I Want More I'm A Winner, Baby I'm In Trouble Again I'm Thick In 2 Deep Jam In Praise Of Sumo In The Thick Of It Indoor League Insectkind Invasion Irish Joke Isn't It Horrible? Isolation It's A Man's Game Jack Horner Jacob's Ladder Jam Tomorrow Jimmy Hill Jingle Smells Jos Just A Form Of Music Just Desserts Just Look At Me Now Just Look At Me Now (Borstal Boy Mix) Just Us Mix Justice / Injustice K-2 (indian Restaurant) Karl Marx Never Made The Squad Kinnochio Kiss, Kiss, Kiss Knit Your Own Balaclava L - Invasion L - Isolation Last Taxi Ride LAUGHING (Never Stopped Mix) Lay People Learning Karate Leather On Willow, Etc. Lest We Forget Lester Piggot, Cell Block No. 9 Let It Be Liberation Look! No Strings! Lord Batemans Motorbike Lost In Rome Love Can Knock You Over Love Me Lying In The Dirt Mad Max Man Papers His Crack Mannequin Martini People Mary Mary Mary Mary (Stigmatic Mix) May Day Memories Of Shilts Michaelangelo Mick Mcmanus' Haircut Money More Whitewashing Mothful Mountain Biking Mouthful Of Shit Mouthful Of Shit (Country & Western Version) Nadzeroon El Babo Naming Names Never Do What You Are Told Never Let Go Not Sport Not The Girl I Used To Be Nothing That's New Nuclear Power? No Thanks! On Being Pushed On eBay On Ilkley Moor Baht'at On The Beach One By One One By One (Acoustic Version) One Green Hill One Under Par One Way System One-Sided Game Orienteering Outfoxed Outsider Oxymoron P.e. Pass It Along Pass It Along (Albumesque Mix) Pass It Along (Beats Working Mix) Pass It Along (MP3 Mix) Pass It Along (Rock-O-Rama Mix) Passenger List For Doomed Flight #1721 Piggies In Revolution 9 Pinochet Bids Farewell From Beyond The Grave Plastic Bullets Polo Pop Star Kidnap Punch Drunk R.I.P. RP R.T.Z. & B.P... Why? Rage Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up Rebel Rebel Refugee Remembrance Day Reuters (1977) Rich Popstars Make Good Socialists Rip It Up Running Order Salome (Let's Twist Again) Same Old Same Old Saying No Scapegoat Scare City School Team Seoul Music Seven Days She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy She's Got All The Friends That Money Can Buy (Sing... Shin-Paring Shipbuilding (1983) Shock! Horror! Shoot Shot Sing About Love Slag Aid Sleep Small Town Smalltown Smash Clause 28! Smash Clause 29! Snip Snip Snip So Long, So Long Somebody Else Sometimes Plunder Song Of The (Now Determined) Mother Song Of The Government Minister Who Enjoys His Wor... Song Of The Hardworking Community Registration Off... Song Of The Mother In Debt Spassky Fischer Sporting Ties Sports Stagnation Stitch That (Country & Western Version) Stitch That (country & Western Version) Stitch That! Strike! (Barnsley 3 Man Utd. 2 Mix) Studmarks On The Summits Sugar Daddy Sunday League Footy Sweet F.A. Tearing Up Zoo That Golden Era The ABCs of Anarchism The Ballad Of Peoplekind The Best Is Yet To Come (Acoustic Version) The Best Is Yet To Come (Bee Hold End Version) The Big Issue The Big Issue (Acoustic Version) The Big Picture The Birmingham Six The Bowler's Botha, The Batsman's Gooch The Bull Fights Back The Candidates Find Common Ground The Choice Is Yours The Day The Lady Died The Day The Nazi Died (1993 Mix) The Devil's Interval The Englishman Abroad The Fun In Games The Goodship Lifestyle The Incompatibility Of Sport And Cosmic Consciousn... The Morning After The Morning After (The Night Before) The Ogre (After WH Auden) The Police Have Been Wonderful The Rise And Fall And Rise Of Greavsie The Standing Still The Sun The Sun/Scum The Tennis Racket The Tree Of Knowledge The Untraditional The Worm Turns There's No Need To Vote NF When There Are Twelve T... This Dress Kills This Girl This Year's Thing Thorn-emi Lighting Tiananmen Square Tills Ring, Crowds Cheer! Timebomb Timebomb (Jimmy Echo Vocal) Times Of Crisis To A Little Radio Right Around The World Tony Blair Top Of The World Top Of The World (Olé Olé Olé) Top of the World (Ole Ole Ole) Top Of The World (Ole, Ole, Ole) Tub Thumping Tubby Barlow Tubthumping Tubthumping (Country & Western Version) Tubthumping (Escape From New York Mix) Tubthumping (Single Version) Tubthumping (Tin Tin Out Mix) Ugh! Your Ugly Houses! Ugliest Part Of The Body Unilever Universal Soldier (1966) Uranium Bribery Never Fails Voices, That's All Waiting For Margaret To Go Waiting For The Bus Waiting, Shouting Walking The Penine Way We Don't Go To God's House Anymore We Don't Want To Sing Along We Support All Forms Of Resistance Against This Ra... We Support All Forms Of Resistance Against This Ra... We Want Beans Not Goals What We Want When I'm Bad Where Did The Chinaman Go? Whilst Stocks Last Why Are We Still In Ireland? Why Can't We Sing About Something Nice? Without Reason or Rhyme (The Killing of Harry Stan... World Turned Upside Down Wormkind You Can't Trust Anyone Nowadays You Don't Exist You Watched Me Dance Younger Moralists Yup And Under Zola Budd
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