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The Clash
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 cruisnin down the ville
The muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grille
Chorus
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont 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 its cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
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 its not kosher
Fundamentally he cant take it.
You know he really hates it.
An Arabic word that literally means "noble" or "illustrious," especially by virtue of one's lineage.
In the first few centuries of the Muslim era, sharif (pl., ashraf or shurafa) was used to refer to members of the prominent Arab families that made up the typically landed aristocracy of the expanding Muslim domains. Much like its rough equivalent sayyid, however, use of sharif as an honorific was gradually limited to scions of the clan of the prophet Muhammad (that is, the Banu Hashim), and eventually was further restricted to Muhammad's direct descendants through his grandsons Hasan and Husayn. In Mecca, Medina, and their environs, the custom developed of applying the title sharif almost exclusively to descendants of Hasan, with sayyid referring to descendents of Husayn. Under Ottoman rule the senior member of the Arabian sharifs was recognized as the semiautonomous governor of Mecca and the keeper of its sacred sanctuary.
Raga:
Quote:
raga
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "raga":
Aeolian mode, Dorian mode, Greek modes, Hindu mode, Indian mode,
Locrian mode, Lydian mode, Phrygian mode, authentic mode,
hypoaeolian mode, hypodorian mode, hypoionian mode,
hypolocrian mode, hypolydian mode, hypomixolydian mode,
hypophrygian mode, major mode, minor mode, mixolydian mode, mode,
octave species, plagal mode
-- From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Minarets:
Quote:
Minaret
Minaret \Min"a*ret\, n. [Sp. minarete, Ar. man[=a]rat lamp,
lantern, lighthouse, turret, fr. n[=a]r to shine.] (Arch.)
A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by
one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to
prayer is cried by the muezzin.
[1913 Webster]
-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Muezzin:
Quote:
muezzin
muezzin \mu*ez"zin\ (m[-u]*[e^]z"z[i^]n), n. [Ar.]
A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer; the Moslem official
of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret
five times a day. [Written also {mouezzin}, {mueddin},
{muazzin}, {mu'adhdhin}, and {muwazzin}.]
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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The Clash - "Know Your Rights"
Quote:
This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights all three of them
Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a crime!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights
And number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Dont mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation
Know your rights
These are your rights
Wang
Know these rights
Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as youre not
Dumb enough to actually try it.
Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of em
It has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough!
Well..............................
Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run
You dont have a home to go to
Smush
Finally then I will read you your rights
You have the right to remain silent
You are warned that anything you say
Can and will be taken down
And used as evidence against you
