The Ogre
Chumbawamba * Track #21 On The Boy Bands Have Won
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- #1When An Old Man Dies
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- #2Add Me
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- #3Words Can Save Us
Chumbawamba
- #4Hull Or Hell
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- #5El Fusilado
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- #6Unpindownable
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- #7I Wish That They’d Sack Me
Chumbawamba
- #8Word Bomber
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- #9All Fur Coat & No Knickers
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- #10Fine Line
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- #11Lord Bateman’s Motorbike
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- #12A Fine Career
Chumbawamba
- #13To A Little Radio
Chumbawamba
- #14(Words Flew) Right Around The World
Chumbawamba
- #15Sing About Love
Chumbawamba
- #16Bury Me Deep
Chumbawamba
- #17You Watched Me Dance
Chumbawamba
- #18Compliments Of Your Waitress
Chumbawamba
- #19RIP RP
Chumbawamba
- #20Charlie
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- #21The Ogre
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- #22Refugee
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- #23Same Old Same Old
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- #24Waiting For The Bus
Chumbawamba
- #25What We Want
Chumbawamba
The Ogre by Chumbawamba
Performed by
ChumbawambaAbout
The text of this song is taken from from a poem composed by W.H. Auden regarding the Soviet invasion of (then) Czechoslovakia in 1968. However, that poem ends slightly differently:
The ogre does what ogres can
Deeds quite impossible for man.
But one prize is beyond his reach
The ogre cannot master...
The Ogre Lyrics
The Ogre does what Ogres can
One prize beyond his reach –
Conquers those who write the world
But cannot master speech
Among the hurt and slain
On subjugated plain
The Ogre's words so morbid and mundane