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Rock The Casbah

The Clash
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OriginalL'incredibile versione di Rachid Taha / رشيد طه‎
ROCK THE CASBAH

Now the king told the boogie man
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desertway
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
Whit that crazy casbah sound
But the beduin they brought out
The electric cameldrum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef had cleared the square
They began to wail

Nowover at the temple - oh!
They really pack 'em in
They in-crowd says it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the chanting direction
And the temple band took five
The crowd took a wiff
Of that crazy casbah jive

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between 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

The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the casbah rock the casbah

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

السلطان قال البوجي مان
من الحرقة بركاو
واش واش هاد الفوضى
البترول في الصحرا يسيل
الشيخ يسوق في الكاديلاك
راه هابط لسونتر فيل
كان دبان
ولا حنش
يستنى في راس المال

Sha-riff don´t like it
Rock the casbah ! rock the casbah !
Sha-riff don´t like it
Rock the casbah ! rock the casbah !

عمر الشيخ فات
قيلكم من البوجي
ماديرو . ماديروش الهول
حرزو حرزو يتلفكم
البداوية خرجو الصوت كي شافهم الشيخ
بعد منهم
واحد منهم بلغيتارة
لاخر بلبندير يضرب
من الحدود خرجو
من الحدود خرجوا
خرجوا من الحدود
الناس تلايمو يتظاهرو
في ارض الجماعة
تم تبدل الريح منين منين جاي
يبدلو في الميزان
والناس سمعو الصوت
صوت القصبة اللي يهبل
الوزير في القصر يعيط على العسكرية
الان راه جا الوقت
نوضو تخدموا شوية
سيرو طلقوا البومبات
و داو الطيارات
و طلقوا البومبات على الناس المجرمين اللي نكرو كلام السلطان
في الاداعة سمعوا
عجبتهم الغنية


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