Chumbawamba - Rappoport's Testament: I Never Gave Up video free download


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Duration: 07:06
Uploaded: 2010/04/20

Different from the 1992 Single version, this is from their 1990 album "Slap!"

Inspired by Primo Levi's autobiographical novel "Moments of Reprieve", about life in Nazi concentration camps.

lyrics:

(chorus)

And if you survive me

I Never gave up

Tell them this

I Never gave up

And if you survive me

I Never gave up

Tell them this

Almost as if I were planning ahead

I drank, I ate, I made love

I learnt to snatch whatever I could

I never asked for pity and I never gave up

(Repeat chorus)

Twenty months I kept accounts

And in the end they'll balance out

Sometimes I vomit happy memories

Sometimes I laugh out loud just to crack my face

(Repeat chorus)

And if I meet Hitler in the other place

I'll spit this precious soup in his face

And all my accounts will be settled, you see

'Cause Hitler never ever got the better of me

(Repeat chorus)

I never gave up, I never gave up

I crawled in the mud but I never gave up

I never gave up, I never gave up

I crawled in the mud but I never gave up...

Comments

10 years ago

davidbennett60

Well I got all your songs for free. Cheers!

11 years ago

R. ROOKSBY

It's too easy to sit back & slag Chumbawamba for "selling out" - people change, opinions & beliefs change, but a great song remains a great song, & this is definitely a GREAT SONG. ;)

11 years ago

BadDreamFancyDress

bloody marvellous

12 years ago

BadDreamFancyDress

Sooo good me Chumbers

12 years ago

guwest2

Heard once, I found it going through my head for the subsequent decade.

13 years ago

Dosbat1

Could this be the most beautiful and life-affirming song on Youtube?

14 years ago

Detroit1967

Remember seeing them on their first German tour and they played this song. The punters couldn't get enough and chanted this song at the head, forcing the band to return to the stage and play it the 2nd time. Great days : D

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