AFRO-CUBAN BEBOP

(Strummer)


Give me some afro-cuban be-bop some snazzy clothes
I have a man to remember not to take no overdose
Life's finest things oh New York and fancy drinks

Give me some afro-cuban be-bop the house just wants to rock
Looking for a partner around the world and 'round the block
Love written on the handle and all the tires look good
She's made of Detroit metal and you know you should

Afro-cuban be-bop some snazzy clothes
I have a man to remember not to take no overdose
Life's finest thing oh New York and fancy drinks

Oh afro-cuban be-bop the house just wants to rock
Looking for a partner around the world and 'round the block
Love's written on the handle and all the tires look good
She's made of Detroit metal and you know you should

Afro-cuban be-bop the house just wants to rock
Looking for that partner around the world and 'round the block

Afro-cuban be-bop some snazzy clothes
I have a man to remember not to take no overdose
Life's finest things oh New York and fancy drinks

Oh some afro-cuban be-bop the house just wants to rock
Looking for that partner around the world and 'round the block
Love written on the handle and all the tires look good
She's made of Detroit metal and you know you should

Afro-cuban be-bop around the world and 'round the block
Afro cuban be-bop around the world and 'round the block
Oh love written on the handle and all the tires look good
She's made of Detroit metal and you know you should

Afro-cuban be-bop around the world and 'round the block
Afro-cuban be-bop the house just wants to rock

BABY THE TRANS

(Strummer)

You've got to baby the trans on the southside of Chicago
You've got to baby the trans through the bedroom trade embargo
And if you're gonna find the paradise of love
Take my advice ... just look in the glove
You've got to baby the trans for its Alice fills the station
And it's PCP land and angel dust dictation
You can't get in a quarrel
You can't trade up or down
No use breaking Allah
He sends his son to wow the town
You've got to baby the trans

No use going saying come on baby hold hands
All the time she's begging you baby the trans

Baby the trans through the Cuban Missle Crisis
Playin' it like mad through acute appendicitis
Nobody knows what the assassin ate
But it was a lot of sugar and food color eighty-eight
You've got to baby the trans
Baby the trans

Hey, no use going saying c'mon baby hold hands
All the times she's begging you baby the trans
You've got to baby the trans
Baby the trans
Baby the trans
B-B--Baby the trans, boys

BURNING LIGHTS

(Strummer)

Some dreams are made for children
But most grow old with us
And when the air can hope to hold on
And to the ground from dust to rust.

Burning lights in the desert
Such a sign only you would know
Your running tyres, they're out of pressure
Such a sign only you would know

And I've been a long haul driver
Moving things but the cops don't know
Now I can see the writing
You are the last of the buffalo

Burning lights in the desert
Such a sign only you would know
Your running tyres, they're out of pressure
Such a sign only you would know.

Now I've been to California
And I've been to New South Wales
Sometimes I, I pull over
When I realise I've left no trace

Burning lights in the desert
Such a sign only you would know
Your running tyres, they're out of pressure
Such a sign only you would know.

CHOLO VEST

(Strummer)

Nobody really thinks about you when you're gone....no no no no
No kind memories linger on
In fact far better to get up and go out in the morning
You know, choose another funky downtown cholo vest
Going out in the morning

And there's somebody making sandwiches in the deli
And you're wondering to yourself how many pickles can you put in
Is it really really really so bad
Ihe intellectual daft that you dug
That you wanna let it call yourself in
That's what I said
And even the screaming monsters with the armband and the studs
Gonna rock down in Anaheim
You know something, they don't take it so seriously
They just wanna get home with their mom and kids at dinnertime

Because nobody really thinks about you when you're gone
Sing it out !!!
Nobody really really really thinks about you when you're gone
Oh no no no kind memories linger on

You know precious precious precious
Yeah, there's those things to do, things to be putting on
Shows to see, pictures to buy
Pictures of gorillas coming on down those buildings in the sky
Hey yeah, I'm talking, I get out there
Now talking Lebanese in the morning with the taxi man
He's got some kind of Esperanto on the go
Holy Moses give me a ???????
I can't explain something real complicated
Find a two way car intersection
It's just a place to go
Hombre Señor ... just remember that!!

Nobody really thinks about you when you're gone....

DUM DUM CLUB

(Strummer)

This is New York boy
We wanna hear you talk boy
This is New York Boy
You ain't never gonna walk
Downtown they got some guy
Shot forty-seven people on a PCP high
Uptown they got a team from Queens
Busy beating people through a mean machine, yeoww

You had a shot at a thing called love
In the Hollywood hills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

This is New York boy
Murder one in court boy
This is New York boy
You ain't ever gonna walk

You were a rebel in a drum town son
Somebody loaded up the plastic gun
Seen that monkey got you shooting in your blood
Using bullets from the dum dum club

You had a shot at a thing called love
In the Hollywood hills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

You had a shot at at thing called love
Like shooting up on pills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

You can't make a deal son
Your life is ruined
You can't play with knives
The junkie's still alive

You had a shot at a thing called love
In the Hollywood hills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

You had a shot at a thing called love
Like shooting up on pills
You can't help but follow that love
Even if it kills

You gotta follow that love
You gotta follow that love
Just follow that love
Follow that love

Even if it kills
Even if it kills
Even if it kills

THE UNKNOWN IMMORTAL

(Strummer/Schloss)

Dal e mi soula
Y me incuerdo
Did you see my family
We had a sweet simple glory
We had a gallant who works for me

For I was once an immortal
With General Walker's gringo army
Yeah I was once an immortal
With William Walker's gringo army

Must be seven years that I followed him
All across the southern sea
And I never thought I hear the hammer
Beating on the iron of slavery

For I was once an immortal
With William Walker's gringo army
Yeah I was once an immortal
With William Walker's gringo army

Yeah I hear the horrors go to the barricade
You're going hungry without any guns
So sentilde;orita for the last time now
Share some love with the unknown one

For I was once an immortal
With General Walkers gringo army
Yeah I was once an immortal
With William Walker's gringo army
In William Walkers gringo army

TRASH CITY

(Strummer)

In Trash City on Party Avenue
I got a girl from Kalamazoo
In Trash City on a transit line
I put you on hold but you're looking fine

In Trash City on Party Avenue
I got a girl from kalamazoo
In Trash City on a transit line
I put you on hold but you're looking fine

When I see your car at the donut house
Wanna see a movie 'bout a creeper on the house
Wanna go bowling wanna chuck some rocks
Wanna come to my house and change all the locks

In Trash City on Party Avenue
I got a girl from Kalamazoo
In Trash City on a transit line
I put you on hold but you're sure looking fine

Sing you a song like rubber on a turn
Fifty-seven records that you know you ought to burn
Garbagemen don't care for the blues or rock n' roll
It's five o'clock in the morning in a coffee shop in Seoul

First I got a hot dog in a nightmare zone
Then I vandalize a cheap payphone
Crying to the girls won't you leave me alone
Makin' love in the graveyard with cockroach bones

In Trash City on Party Avenue
I got a girl from Kalamazoo
In Trash City on a transit line
I put you on hold but you sure look fine

First I got a hot dog in a nightmare zone
Then I vandalize a cheap payphone
Cryin' to the girls won't you leave me alone
Ain't makin' love with cockroach bones

Down on transit avenue
I got a girl from Kalamazoo
Down on Transit Avenue Panama Time
To hold to be real fine

ONE TIME!!

JOHNNY APPLESEED

(Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros)

Lord there goes Johnny Appleseed,
He ate my past life in the hour of need,
There’s a lot of soul…
Took him from the well,
Locked in a factory.
If you’re out there getting’ honey,
Then you don’t go killing all the bees.

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

I hear what you’re sayin’ (I hear what he’s sayin’)
If you’re out there getting’ honey,
Then you don’t go killing all the bees.

What the people are sayin’,
Well we know every rule,
What the people are sayin’,
There ain’t no berries on the tree,

Let the summertime sun,
Fall on the apple…

Lord there goes a Buick ’49,
Black sheep with the angels ridin’,
Ridin’ down the line,
We think there is a soul,
We don’t know,
That soul is hard to find,
Down the road, down the road,

If you’re out there getting’ honey,
Then you don’t go killing all the bees.

That’s what the people are sayin’,
There ain’t no berries on the trees,
That’s what the people are sayin’,