Rock The Casbah

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1. Now, the king told the boogie men,

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you have to let that raga drop.

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The oil down the desert way

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has been shaking to the top.

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The sheik he drove his cadillac

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he went a cruisin down the ville.

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The Muezzin was a standing

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On the radiator grille.

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R: Shareef don't like it.

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Rock the Casbah. Rock the Casbah.

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Shareef don't like it.

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Rock the Casbah. Rock the Casbah.

2. 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.

R: Shareef don't like it...

3. 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 got a whiff

Of that crazy casbah jive.

R: Shareef don't like it...

4. 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 Shareefwas outta their hair

The jet pilots wailed.

R: Shareef don't like it...