Tribute to Joe Strummer by Dave Lordan

Tribute To Joe Strummer

Your words were boots Joe, boots in Lewisham
When black and white and yellow riot put down the Nazi scum,
And in Trafalgar Square in ninety-one
When the fury of our rainbow class put Thatcher on the run
Your words were firing like a gun Joe, firing like a gun.

I heard your booming words echo
Through the streets of Prague-
when we shut the World Bank down
And you were roaring vengeance in Genoa
when we had to fight through gas
and bullets just to hold our ground
And when the many-headed future met in Florence
Everyone knew your name Joe
Your songs were all around.-

And when the threw me in a cell Joe
I sang straight to hell Joe
And when they stood me up in court Joe
I hummed the Brixton guns Joe

Oh Joe! when you got up to sing
It was a fist in a copper's face
It was a pitchfork in a landlord's neck
It was a bullet in a contra's gut
It was an arrow in the eye of a general
It was a kick in the balls for the rich.
It was everything good Joe
It was everything good

And when us Zombies and us Rastas
and us Punks and Workers win
You will be singing in our blood Joe
You will be dancing like speed in our veins

Dave Lordan




Saw this poem mentioned in GD... had to share...

:cry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu-02udB57w&feature=related

White Riot

White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own
White riot - I wanna riot
White riot - a riot of my own

Black people gotta lot a problems
But they dont mind throwing a brick
White people go to school
Where they teach you how to be thick

An everybodys doing
Just what theyre told to
An nobody wants
To go to jail!

All the powers in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it

Everybodys doing
Just what theyre told to
Nobody wants
To go to jail!

Are you taking over
Or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards
Or are you going forwards?

:thumbsup:

Thanks for the youtube link.