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Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,505 posts)
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 01:35 PM Feb 2012

Joe Strummer- Letterman- Johnny Appleseed

Last edited Sat Feb 4, 2012, 08:19 PM - Edit history (1)



"Lord, there goes Martin Luther King
Notice how the door closes when the chimes of freedom ring
I hear what you're saying, I hear what he's saying
Is what was true now no longer so"


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Joe Strummer- Letterman- Johnny Appleseed (Original Post) Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2012 OP
RIP Joe... Thanks for the vid!! Cooley Hurd Feb 2012 #1
I'm a huge fan. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2012 #2
Me too... the Clash reunion that will never be... Cooley Hurd Feb 2012 #5
I know. On a different note, I found Strummer's biography by Chris Salewicz to be very inspiring. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2012 #13
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros bathroommonkey76 Feb 2012 #3
The Magnificent Seven Thaddeus Kosciuszko Feb 2012 #4
Welcome to DU Thaddeus! Cooley Hurd Feb 2012 #6
A man, who cries after reading Mr. Jefferson’s words, is a wise man. Thaddeus Kosciuszko Feb 2012 #8
Best "Thank You for Welcoming Me" post ever! Cooley Hurd Feb 2012 #9
Statue of TK in Chicago rudycantfail Feb 2012 #15
Not as visually striking a tribute - in downtowm Los Angeles DBoon Feb 2012 #10
But a tribute to a great Pole, nonetheless... Cooley Hurd Feb 2012 #11
los angeles stands for nothing if not a complete lack of good taste DBoon Feb 2012 #14
Get Down Moses bathroommonkey76 Feb 2012 #7
Best song of that album IMHO. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2012 #12
"is what was true now no longer so?" stlsaxman Feb 2012 #16
You're right. Fixed. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2012 #17
 

bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
3. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 01:56 PM
Feb 2012

put out 3 really good albums. I was listening to Streetcore just the other day.

It's sad that Joe died so young. RIP Mr. Strummer.

 
4. The Magnificent Seven
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 01:56 PM
Feb 2012

Ring! Ring! It is 7 A.M.!
Move y´self to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place

Knuckle merchants & you bankers, too
Must get up an´ learn those rules
Weather man & the crazy chief
One says sun & one says sleet

A.M., the F.M. the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up & gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?

Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
So cheap & real phony
Hong Kong dollars & Indian cents
English pounds & Eskimo pence

You lot! What?
Don´t stop! Give it all you got!
You lot! What?
Don´t stop! Yea!

Working for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to sophistication
She has seen the ads, she thinks it is nice
Better work hard - I seen the price

Never mind that it is time for the bus
We got to work - an´ you are one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag & the hours jerk

"When can I tell em wot I do?
In a 2nd, maaan...oright Chuck!"

Wave bub-bub-bub-bye to the boss
It is our profit, it is his loss
But anyway lunch bells ring
Take one hour & do your thanng!
Cheeesboiger!

What do we´ve for entertainment?
Cops kickin´ Gypsies on the pavement
Now the news - snap to attention!
The lunar landing of the dentist convention

Italian mobster shoots a lobster
Seafood restaurant gets out of hand
A car in the fridge
Or a fridge in the car?
Like cowboys do - in T.V. land

You lot! What? Don´t stop. Huh?

So get back to work an´ sweat some more
The sun will sink an´ we will get out the door
It is no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages

You are frettin´, you are sweatin´
But did you notice you aint gettin´?
Don´t you ever stop long enough to start?
To take your car outta that gear

Don´t you ever stop long enough to start?
To get your car outta that gear
Karlo Marx & Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence

What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!

Luther King & Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win 50-nil

You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates & Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen

Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who has more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Oooohh...bub-bye

Magnificence!!

 
8. A man, who cries after reading Mr. Jefferson’s words, is a wise man.
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 02:11 PM
Feb 2012

A man, who values words, values the words of Mr. Strummer; for he did not waste his words.

 

bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
7. Get Down Moses
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 02:02 PM
Feb 2012




Once I got to the mountain top, tell you what I could see,
Prairie full of lost souls running from the priests of iniquity
Where the hell was Elijah?
What do you do when the prophecy game was through?

We gotta take the walls of Jericho
Put your lips together and blow
To the very top
They say the truth crystallizes like jewels in the rock, in the rock

Get Down Moses - part another sea
Carve another tablet out of L.S.D.
Get Down Moses - out in Tennessee
Get Down Moses - down in the street
The blood is washing down all the gravel to our feet
Get Down Moses - down in the pit

Lying in a dream, cross battle field,
Crashing on a downtown strip,
Looking in the eyes of the diamonds and the spies and the hip
Who's sponsoring the crack ghetto?
Who's lecturing? Who's in the know and in the don't know?

You better take the walls of Jericho
Put your lips together and blow
Goin' to the very top
Where the truth crystallizes like jewels, in the rock, in the rock

Get Down Moses - from the eagle's aerie
We gotta to make new friends out of old enemies
Get Down Moses - back in Tennessee
Get Down Moses - down with the dreads
They got a lotta reasoning in a dreadhead
Get Down Moses - down in the street
Get Down Moses

Get Down Moses - part another sea
Carve another tablet out of L.S.D.
Get Down Moses - out in Tennessee
Get Down Moses - down in the street
The blood is washing down all the gravel to our feet
Get Down Moses - down in the pit
Get Down Moses

Get Down Moses

Get Down Moses
We need to eat, we gotta chew it over with our wisdom teeth
Get Down Moses
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