Chumbawamba - Ashes to Ashes lyrics

The bowler's running in, the batsman lights a fag

He keeps a packet handy and it's lodged inside his pad

Because it's written in his contract that after every over

He has to have a smoke just to satisfy the sponsor

In a bid to save the sport he sacrifices his health

His inning is getting shorter and so is his breath

Seems the price of survival involves a cigarette

Making money out of sport and choking it to death