The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Uma banda imortal. Joe Strummer (que ganhou este belo nome porque sendo canhoto aprendeu a tocar guitarra na posição de destro. Como a mão direita é muito fraquinha, pouco mais conseguia que tocar acordes (to strum)), vocalista e guitarrista, saiu de uma banda que só tocava versões para formar os Clash, quando surgiu o movimento punk, dando sempre um tom muito político às suas letras.
Este "Rock the Casbah" tem várias implicações: relembra-nos a proibição do Ayatolla Khomeini, maluco supremo do Irão, de se ouvir música rock nesse país. E também a insurgência das colónias (nomeadamente, a Argélia) contra os países detentores do poder. Brutal. Mas dá para dançar que nem um maluco.
Letra:
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
They shake it for his Cadillac
He went a' cruisin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille
CHORUS
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef dont 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 kettle drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the sherif
Had cleared the square
They began to wail
CHORUS
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 wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive
CHORUS
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 Sharif was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as Shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
CHORUS
He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it.
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
They shake it for his Cadillac
He went a' cruisin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille
CHORUS
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef dont 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 kettle drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the sherif
Had cleared the square
They began to wail
CHORUS
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 wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive
CHORUS
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 Sharif was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as Shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
CHORUS
He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it.
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