Rock the Kasbah

Rock the Kasbah; Rock the Kasbah. That fantastic song by The Clash. Did you ever wonder what that song was all about? Well...let me tell you. It's all about the censorship of Western music by the ... well, let's just say by "not the West," to be politically correct. Here, see some of the key lyrics yourself; in the end, the music was still played. Read into this what you will.

Rock the Casbah, by 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-standin'
On the Radiator Grille

The Shariff don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
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 pickin' thumb
As soon as the shariff had cleared the square
They began to wail

The Shariff don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
The Shariff don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

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 whiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

The Shariff don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
The Shariff don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

The king called out his jet fighters
He said you'd better earn 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 out of their hair
The jet pilots wailed

The Shariff don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
The Shariff don't like it [he thinks it's not kosher]
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
The Shariff don't like it [fundamentally he can't take it]
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
The Shariff don't like it [you know he really hates it]
Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah