Hammer, Stirrup & Anvil
Chumbawamba * Track #8 On ABCDEFG
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Album ABCDEFG
- #1Introduction
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- #2Voices, That’s All
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- #3Pickle
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- #4Wagner at the Opera
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- #5Underground
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- #6Torturing James Hetfield
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- #7The Devil’s Interval
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- #8Hammer, Stirrup & Anvil
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- #9Puccini Said
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- #10That Same So-So Tune
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- #11Singing Out the Days
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- #12You Don’t Exist
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- #13The Song Collector
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- #14Missed
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- #15Ratatatay
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- #16New York Song
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- #17Dance, Idiot, Dance
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Hammer, Stirrup & Anvil by Chumbawamba
Performed by
ChumbawambaAbout
The work of famous composer Dimitri Shostakovitch was all composed under the reign of the USSR. This song details the censorship he faced under communist rule and pushes the contested idea that he was a soviet dissenter.
Hammer, Stirrup & Anvil Lyrics
Our Glorious Leader
Declares by decree:
'The music of the Glorious State from this time on will be
Square-jawed and dreary
For the good of us all.'
Hammer, stirrup and anvil under state control
My name is Dimitri
Man of some renown
In this symphony of spies I keep my ear to the ground
Stave, crochet and quaver
Under the editor's scrawl
Hammer, stirrup and anvil under state control
An operetta for our leader
A quartet for the drawer
He gets the rank cantatas
And I keep the score
A libretto for the death camps
Some day you'll hear them all
Hammer, stirrup and anvil under state control
Hammer, stirrup and anvil under state control