Chords for Chumbawamba One hit wonder documentary (Tubthumping)

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_ I [D] get knocked out, [G] but I get up [D] again, they're never gonna [G] get me down.
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_ _ _ _ _ The song, when I first heard it, I couldn't stand.
But then a second time I thought, actually this is okay.
And a third time I thought, this is fantastic.
And it's a definite number one, is one called Tub Thumping by Chumbawamba.
Yeah, just totally surprised, because it wasn't like we'd sort of written a song that we thought,
oh, let's try and get in the charts, which is what a lot of people thought we'd done.
We thought we just did what we always did.
However, [Dm] I'm particularly, [G] exceedingly pleased to have this next band playing live on the
Roadshow, because their record has been a big single of mine for flipping ages.
And the record is also out today, is that right?
It is.
So having watched it and heard it, go out and buy it.
Because every shop all over the country should have a copy of Tub Thumping.
Ladies and gentlemen, Chumbawamba!
There was suddenly all this frenzy of activity.
And I know I deal with music publishing from the band's point of view.
And the guy who was dealing with it then rang up and said, congratulations, you've got a hit.
And the record wasn't even released.
And it was like, what?
You know, it was totally freaky.
You did sort of get the feeling that something was going to happen.
But the scale of it was, you know, I had no idea. _ _
I'm going to have to [A] ask you to get out [D] of the way. _
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[Eb] I _ _ _ _ mentioned the name Chumbawamba, and you might wonder what I'm talking about.
But the band is from Leeds, and they're currently riding high in the charts at number two, to
be precise, with the hit Tub Thumping.
Every time we do an interview, people go, [Ab] how has your life changed?
We've been at number two for a week.
We've got mansions and homes.
Number one next week, let's hope.
It's fantastic that we can get on all these television shows.
You know, we get invited on to Top of the Pops.
You know, it's laughable, really.
Scum like us.
If you had suggested to us when Chumbawamba first started out that we would be on Top
of the Pops, it would probably be the biggest insult you could have ever thrown at us.
Can I have a look?
_ _ Stand up. _
It looks good.
_ _ _ It were like youth club disco.
It were just like a youth club disco.
It were like, it were funny.
We want everybody in here going, I'm getting knocked down, [B] right?
But I get up again, you're never going to see me again, alright?
Like that, okay.
So we want everybody in here going.
He doesn't even know the [G] words, does he?
He doesn't even know the [N] fucking song.
I don't know the song.
Okay.
_ _ [A] I [D] get knocked down, [G] but I get up again.
[D] You never gonna [G] keep me down.
I [D] get knocked down, [G] but I get up again.
[A] You never gonna keep me down.
All these dreams you've got of, you know, your 70s heroes stomping away to a mass crowd.
You suddenly realize they were them and 23 toddlers.
_ _ _ _ [B] Since this syndrome was breaking all over the world, [Gb] _ _ [B] and we were wondering how being
an artist and being a rich man, it all came together.
_ _ _ [Gm] Well, tonight [E] we rumble with literally [N] the hottest singing group in the USA.
Mother called, you've been waiting for me to say this, huh?
Chumbawamba.
Chumbawamba.
Chumbawamba.
Chumbawamba.
Good.
Chumbawamba.
Chumbawamba.
Now I can't stop saying it.
And their hit song is Tub thumping.
What's the first thing you think of?
Nope, not Leigh-Anne [Bb] Rimes.
Why, it is Chumbawamba, of course.
There's not a radio station that isn't playing it.
They have an album that [Gb] exploded in the top ten, a song that has everyone singing, including you guys.
I get knocked down, but I get up again.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're never gonna get me down.
Anymore.
I like a vocajip, I _ _ _ like a vocajip.
[G] I get knocked [A] down, but I get back [Gb] up again.
Not bad for a group of self-proclaimed anarchists from [B] the UK.
And we warn you, it's the kind of [Bm] song that sort of tends to stick [A] in your head.
In fact, it's topping, topping the alternative charts for weeks.
I got everything else right, but I couldn't say topping.
Anyway, if you've got a kid, he hasn't got it yet, buy it.
It's a good CD to have.
Yes, indeed.
I agree.
It's great fun, it's [Bbm] weird.
It's good stuff, I know you like it.
I love that song, and it's on my son's Christmas [Ab] list, the album.
So there we go.
And he'll get it, because I want to hear it.
I'd still like someone to tell me what the song means.
So many British bands go to America, we're gonna crack America and all this,
and we just were happy to go and play there again.
Now I recognise that it is a really big [Bm] deal selling like 5 million albums. _
But at the time, _ _ _ I thought the whole thing was so surreal.
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_ [G] Well, [D] we all know this [G] song by [D] Chumbawamba.
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Having fun with this?
_ Suddenly, by Christmas of 1997, 1998, it was like number 3 in the album charts,
higher than the Spice Girls, which _ was just pure insanity, really.
Basically, having a political background gives you a different notion of success.
_ So success, you know, weren't going to a meet and greet,
and having like a 14-year-old scream at you.
_ _ So in some ways, it was a really interesting experience.
_ _ But I think it made most of us realise we preferred real [N] life. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Afterwards, people would come up and go,
you've been on such and such a show?
Wow, that's amazing, that person's like the most famous person
in the history of persons ever.
What were they doing on your show?
They were singing and they were anarchists the whole time.
Wait a minute, you had singing anarchists on your show?
I didn't, I didn't even know what an anarchist was.
I had to look it up in the dictionary and I'm still a little confused.
I know what an anarchist is, I just didn't know what an anarchist sang.
Where did you find them, on the Jerry Springer show? _ _ _ _