Chumbawamba - Introduction Lyrics

In the dark times, will we be singing?
Yes, we'll be singing of the dark times.

Every new day's dawn
Brings of a song of its own

Waiting to be sung.

Chumbawamba's ongoing love-affair with Bertolt Brecht manifests itself here with this snippet of a song based on his short poem -- "In the dark times, will there be singing? Yes. There will be singing about the dark times."

Musically, the song was inspired by a scene in an episode of Mad Men where Don Draper goes to a beatnik bar and smokes pot, and a folk duo are playing a Jewish traditional song which sticks in your head and wont leave ...