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The Clash lyrics
Album: Sandinista! [1980]
| Tracks | 36 |
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| | 01 | | The Magnificent Seven |
| | 02 | | Hitsville U.K. |
| | 03 | | Junco Partner |
| | 04 | | Ivan Meets G.I. Joe |
| | 05 | | The Leader |
| | 06 | | Something About England |
| | 07 | | Rebel Waltz |
| | 08 | | Look Here |
| | 09 | | The Crooked Beat
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| | 10 | | Somebody Got Murdered |
| | 11 | | One More Time |
| | 12 | | One More Dub |
| | 13 | | Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice) |
| | 14 | | Up in Heaven (Not Only Here) |
| | 15 | | Corner Soul |
| | 16 | | Let's Go Crazy |
| | 17 | | If Music Could Talk |
| | 18 | | The Sound of Sinners |
| | 19 | | Police on My Back |
| | 20 | | Midnight Log |
| | 21 | | The Equaliser |
| | 22 | | The Call Up
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| | 23 | | Washington Bullets |
| | 24 | | Broadway |
| | 25 | | Lose This Skin |
| | 26 | | Charlie Don't Surf
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| | 27 | | Mensforth Hill |
| | 28 | | Junkie Slip |
| | 29 | | Kingston Advice |
| | 30 | | The Street Parade |
| | 31 | | Version City |
| | 32 | | Living in Fame |
| | 33 | | Silicone on Sapphire |
| | 34 | | Version Pardner |
| | 35 | | Career Opportunities |
| | 36 | | Shepherds' Delight |
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| The Crooked Beat | |
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Title: The Crooked Beat
Start the car lets make a midnight run
Across the river to South London
To dance to the latest hi-fi sound
Of bass, guitar and drum
Seeking out a rhythm that can take the pressure off
Stepping in and out of that crooked crooked beat
Take a piece of cloth, a coin for thirst
For the sweat will start to run
With a cymbal splash, a word of truth
And a rocking bass and drum
Seeking out a rhythm that can take the pressure on
Stepping in and out of that crooked crooked beat
So one by one they come on down
From the tower blocks of my home town
Stepping with the rhythm of the rockers beat
Drowning out the pressure of the crooked beat
Seeking out a rhythm that can take the tension on
Stepping in and out of that crooked crooked beat
It has crooked past this crooked street
Where cars patrol this crooked beat
Badges flsh and sirens wail
They'll be taking one and all to jail
Prance! Prance! You want a law to dance?
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| The Call Up | |
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Clash - The Call Up
it's up to you not to heed the call up
'n' you must not act the way you were brought up
who knows the reasons why you have grown up?
who knows the plans or why they were drawn up?
it's up to you not to heed the call up
i don't wanna die!
it's up to you not to heed the call up
i don't wanna kill!
for he who will die
is he who will kill
maybe i wanna see the wheatfields
over kiev and down to the sea
all the young people down the ages
they gladly marched off to die
proud city fathers used to watch them
tears in their eyes
there is a rose that i want to live for
although, god knows, i may not have met her
there is a dance an' i should be with her
there is a town-unlike any other
it's up to you not to heed the call up
'n' you must not act the way you were brought up
who gives you work an' why should you do it?
at fifty-five minutes past eleven
there is a rose....
yeah!
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| Charlie Don't Surf | |
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(the clash)
Chorus
Charlie don’t surf and we think he should
Charlie don’t surf and you know that it ain’t no good
Charlie don’t surf for his hamburger momma
Charlie’s gonna be a napalm star
Everybody wants to rule the world
Must be something we get from birth
One truth is we never learn
Satellites will make space burn
We’ve been told to keep the strangers out
We don’t like them starting to hang around
We don’t like them all over town
Across the world we are going to blow them down
Chorus
The reign of the super powers must be over
So many armies can’t free the earth
Soon the rock will roll over
Africa is choking on their coca cola
It’s a one a way street in a one horse town
One way people starting to brag around
You can laugh, put them down
These one way people gonna blow us down
Chorus
Charlie don’t surf he’ll never learn
Charlie don’t surf though he’s got a gun
Charlie don’t surf think that he should
Charlie don’t surf we really think he should
Charlie don’t surf
Charlie don’t surf and we think he should
Charlie don’t surf and you know that it ain’t no good
Charlie don’t surf for his hamburger momma
Charlie don’t surf
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