Chumbawamba - Charlie

A brilliant song from the Chainmakers' Festival performance by Chumbawamba. This is a song to commemorate the impact of Charles Darwin - ideal as an anthem for humanists and fans of Richard Dawkins! Excellent words and music:

"All of nature in its place
By hand of the designer
Comes our Charlie spins the world
From here to Asia Minor
In between the Platypus
And perfect Aphrodite
Charlie come with opposing thumb
To question the Almighty

Over the river and over the sea
Through holy storm and thunder
Steer a course for a brave new world
Of common sense and wonder

See the dancing President
The congressman and teacher
Jumpin' to the music of
The wealthy Midwest preacher
Charlie come with a brand new dance
Get on the floor and follow
Find yourself a partner and
We'll swing into tomorrow

Over the river and over the sea
Through holy storm and thunder
Steer a course for a brave new world
Of common sense and wonder

Armed with truth we're stepping out
Come join the worldwide party
Charge your glass and face the world
We'll drink a toast to Charlie

Over the river and over the sea
Through holy storm and thunder
Steer a course for a brave new world
Of common sense and wonder."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Chumbawamba
• Humanism
• Darwin
• Folk
• Chainmakers
• Black
• Country
• Museum

[asdfTambourine]

Sweet!

Do you know whether the words are anywhere available?

T.

[mightyfrogfilms]

I'll add them to the "more info" box for you, if YouTube lets me

[ProfessorPeewee]

It's official, I am now a rabid Chumbawumba fan...

[mightyfrogfilms]

Thanks Professor Peewee, hamsterpoop and grenangle for commenting on this clip. I think Chumbawamba are brilliant. If you haven't seen them already, do look at my uploads of Add Me, On e-Bay and By and By. I'll probably put some more up from this excellent concert before Xmas.

[ChuckyJesus666]

Brilliant! I'm going to mirror this and overlay the lyrics as subtitles! :-)

[playerspecial21]

Evolution is a manipulative concept to imprison the human mind. Cumbawamba is still great . Big tunes

[moodie69]

Chumbawamba used to be really big in canada in the late 90's... god dam danny boy...lmfao

[VulcanFleet]

I second CKtheFat. Creationism is the (surprise) Creation Myth of a primitive culture. Evolution is a process that has produced the diversity of life, and is still in operation.

[CKtheFat]

You got those reversed. :P

[MrNimbleton]

creation is real evolution is a myth. but who said that a god exists because of this x

[asdfTambourine]

A bit of Googling turned them up, actually, but certainly it would be no harm to show them here too, if there's room.

T.