Chumbawamba - This Year's Thing lyrics

Roll up roll up

The greatest show on Earth

Animals clowns freaks misfits contortionists

Fun for all the family

Currently residing in the 'where are they now' file

All tied up in elastic

Stubborn like weeds they've been here all the while

I saw the egis grow

In good working order adjustable spanner

Industry junkies

Regurgitated cabaret under the hammer

They were running the show

Let's hear it for

this year's thing

Last year's thing

Next year's thing

Step right this way

Thrills chills and spills

Marvel at the daring feats

Pure entertainment

Karaoke sex we can spend the night together

I made a date with Elvis

While someone does a runner with the group's bread and butter

I heard the colonel sing

From a packet of twenty when will they learn

Sickalongadanbert

That for one good smoke there's nineteen that burn

I never saw the strings

Attached to

This year's thing

Last year's thing

Next year's thing

Jump a little higher

Live by fire die by fire

I am the dog in the manger

Or a dodgy brown packet with suspicious-looking wires

Here's my starter for ten

Behind that pane of glass your special backstage pass

Hear the never-has-been

Meet the manager with his kex down and kiss his arse

And watch what happen again

This time it's this year's thing

Last year's thing

Next year's thing

Politics is this year's thing