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The Clash lyrics
Album: Give 'em Enough Rope [1978]
| English Civil War | |
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When johnny comes marching home again
He's coming by bus or underground
A woman's eye will shed a tear
To see his face so beaten in fear
An' it was just around the corner in the english civil war
It was still at the stage of clubs and fists
When that well-known face got beaten to bits
Your face was blue in the light of the screen
As we watched the speech of an animal scream
The new party army was marching right over our heads
Alright!
There you are, ha ha, i told you so
Says everybody that we know
But who hid a radio under the stairs
An' who got caught out on their unawares?
When that new party army came marching right up the stairs
When johnny comes marching home again
Nobody understands it can happen again
The sun is shining an' the kids are shouting loud
But you gotta know it's shining through a crack in the cloud
And the shadows keep falling when johnny comes marching home
Alright!
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| Tommy Gun | |
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tommy gun
you ain't happy less you got one
tommy gun
ain't gonna shoot the place up
just for fun
maybe he wants to die for the money
maybe he wants to kill for his country
whatever he wants, he's gonna get it
tommy gun
you better strip it down for a custom run
tommy gun
waiting in the airport 'till kingdom come
an' we can watch you make it
on the nine o'clock news
standing there in palestine lighting the fuse
whatever you want, you're gonna get it
tommy gun
you'll be dead when your war is won
tommy gun
but did you have to gun down everyone
i can see it's kill or be killed
a nation of destiny has got to be fulfilled
whatever you want, you're gonna get it
tommy gun
you can be a hero in an age of none
tommy gun
i'm cutting out your picture from page one
i'm gonna get a jacket just like yours
an' give my false support to your cause
whatever you want, you're gonna get it
boats and tanks and planes, it's your game
kings and queens an' generals learn your name
i see all the innocents, the human sacrifice
and if death comes so cheap
then the same goes for life
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| Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad | |
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Title: Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
It's lucy in the sky and all kinds of apple pie
She giggles at the screen 'cos it looks so green
There's carpets on the pavements
And feathers in her eye
But sooner or later, her new friends will realise
That julie's been working for the drug squad
Well it seemed like a dream, too good to be true
Stash it in the bank while the tablets grow high
In their millions
And everybody's high (hi, man...)
But there's someone looking down
From that mountainside
'cos julie's been working for the drug squad
And it's ten years for you
Nineteen for you
And you can get out in twenty-five
That is if you're still alive
An' then there came the night of the greatest ever raid
They arrested every drug that had ever been made
They took eighty-two laws
Through eighty-two doors
And they didn't halt the pull
Till the cells were all full
'cos julie was working fob the drug squad
They put him in a cell, they said you wait here
You've got the time to count all of your hair
You've got fifteen years
A mighty long time
You could have been a physicist
But now your name is on the mailbag list
Julie's been working for the drug squad
Gumbo!
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