May 15, 2006

Rock the Casbah


Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a-cruisin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille

The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a whiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it
You know he really hates it

9 comments:

  1. Es una de las canciones más famosas de The Clash, de principios de los 80. ¿Por qué odias la poesía?

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  2. Porque no dicen nada. Es una forma muy rebuscada, muy alambicada de no decir nada.
    Yo diría que la poesía es el "Arte de no decir nada". A nivel de proposiciones digo; después si transmite sentimientos u otras cosas a mi no me llegan.

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  3. Qué pena Marcos que no te guste la poesía... o que no la hayas descubierto aún... si bien no es el género literario que más me atrae, hay cosas que no pueden decirse de otro modo...

    Mi último descubrimiento fue David White, acá les mando un botón de muestra... no pude encontrar el que más me gustó que es "The Truelove" (http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/W/WhyteDavid/index.htm#PoemList)

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  4. Excelente, justo puse ese link en el post.

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  5. The Clash en Jamaica cantando Rock The Casbah, y otras yerbas (je,je,je...)

    link a Kwaya na Kisser

    27/11/82

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