Rock the Casbah Chords & Lyrics by The Clash

Rock the Casbah

guitar chords lyrics

The Clash

Rock the Casbah by the Clash

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Dm7 Am7 G7
Em7 F Em7 C

Am7 Em7

Now, the king told the boogie men,
G7 Dm7
you have to let that raga drop.
Am7 Em7
The oil down the desert way
G7 Dm7
has been shaken to the top.
A7 Em7
The sheik he drove his cadillac
G7 Dm7
he went a cruisin down the ville.
Am7 Em7
The Muezzin was a standing
F
On the radiator grille.

chorus:

Dm7 Am7 G7
Shareef don't like it.
Em7 F Em7 C
Rock the Casbah. Rock the Casbah.
Dm7 Am7 G7
Shareef don't like it.
Em7 F Em7 C
Rock 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 camel drum.
The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb.
As soon as the Shareef had cleared the square,
They began to wail.

chorus

Am7
Now over at the temple
Oh, they really pack em in.
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing.
F
But as the wind changed direction
G7
and the temple band took five
Am7
The crowd got a whiff
Of that crazy casbah jive.

chorus

The king called up his jet fighters,
He said, you better earn your pay.
Drop your bombs down between the minarets
Down the casbah way.
As sson as the Shareef was chauffered out of there,
The jet pilote tuned to the cockpit radio blare.
As soon as the Shareef was outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed.

chours x 2

He thinks it�s not kosher
Fundamentally he can�t take it.
You know he really hates it.