Rock The Casbah Lyrics

Rock The Casbah lyrics

Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil
down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The sheik he drove his
Cadillac
He went a' cruisin' down the ville
The muezzin was a'
standing
On the radiator grille

CHORUS
The shareef don't like
it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef don't like
it
Rockin' 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

Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em
in
The in-crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the
wind changed direction
And the temple band took five
The crowd caught a
wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

CHORUS

The king called up his
jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the
minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured
outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon
as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots
wailed

CHORUS

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