Rock The Casbah - The Clash Now the king told the boogie men You have to let that raga drop The oil down the desert way Has been shaken 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 The shariff 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 shariff had cleared the square They began to wail No over at the temple. Oh! 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 whiff Of that crazy casbah jive The king called up his jet fighters He said you better barn your pay Drop your bombs between the minarets Down the casbah way As soon as the shariff was chauffeured outta there The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare As soon as the shariff was outta their hair The jet pilots wailed The shariff don't like it rockin' the casbah rock the casbah He thinks it's not kosher Fundamentally he can't take it You know he really hates it