Favourite Strummer lyric?

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Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?

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mcnugget wrote:
tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
ahahaha i love you brother.

all of 'nitcomb' holds close to me for some reason. mainly these parts...


I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street

Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums ( i have this written on my backpack and everybody asks about it, and say they love it)
Cool, I'd say Nitcomb is my favourite Meskies lyric. Maybe it's because Joe rarely did sentimental songs, and this one's great.

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threecoffins wrote:
mcnugget wrote:
tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
ahahaha i love you brother.

all of 'nitcomb' holds close to me for some reason. mainly these parts...


I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street

Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums ( i have this written on my backpack and everybody asks about it, and say they love it)
Cool, I'd say Nitcomb is my favourite Meskies lyric. Maybe it's because Joe rarely did sentimental songs, and this one's great.
I love the "gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me". Never really thought about it until I was denitting the kids. A line Joe obviously wrote as a father :mrgreen:

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Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?

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101Walterton wrote:
threecoffins wrote:
mcnugget wrote:
tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
ahahaha i love you brother.

all of 'nitcomb' holds close to me for some reason. mainly these parts...


I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street

Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums ( i have this written on my backpack and everybody asks about it, and say they love it)
Cool, I'd say Nitcomb is my favourite Meskies lyric. Maybe it's because Joe rarely did sentimental songs, and this one's great.
I love the "gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me". Never really thought about it until I was denitting the kids. A line Joe obviously wrote as a father :mrgreen:
'tis a good lyric for sure.
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Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?

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101Walterton wrote:
threecoffins wrote:
mcnugget wrote:
tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
ahahaha i love you brother.

all of 'nitcomb' holds close to me for some reason. mainly these parts...


I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street

Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums ( i have this written on my backpack and everybody asks about it, and say they love it)
Cool, I'd say Nitcomb is my favourite Meskies lyric. Maybe it's because Joe rarely did sentimental songs, and this one's great.
I love the "gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me". Never really thought about it until I was denitting the kids. A line Joe obviously wrote as a father :mrgreen:
I guess my late 90s bout with a certain STD makes me look at that song in a different, yet parallel manner.


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Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?

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Don't wanna start any rumours but you know her don't you Wolter. :naughty:
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty


We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

"Without the common people you're nothing"

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If death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life.
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All great ones posted in this thread so far...

I've always liked "They said we'd be artistically free when signed that little paper, They meant let's make a lotsa money, worry about it later."

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Post by MidnightToSixMan Not Logged In »

That's another Mick one, surely? There are so many great Joe lines, but some of my favourites are

"The kids in halls and the pipes in the walls
Make me noises for company"

"As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
Water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise"

"Working for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to sophistication
She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard - I seen the price"

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now they got the sun, an' they got the palm trees
they got the weed, an' they got the taxis
whoa, the harder they come, n' the home of ol' bluebeat
yes i'd stay an' be a tourist but i can't take the gunplay

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So get back to work an' sweat some more
The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?


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To the opium den and the barroom gin
In the Belmont chair playing violins
The gambler's face cracks into a grin
As he lays down the king of spades

But the dealer just stares
There's something wrong here, he thinks
The gambler is seized and forced to his knees
And shot dead

He only wanted more time
Away from the darkest door
But his luck it gave in
As the dawn light crept in
And he lay on the floor

From the Hundred Year War to the Crimea
With a lance and a musket and a Roman spear
To all of the men who have stood with no fear
In the service of the King

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johnny too bad meets johnny be good
in the charing cross road
that's the only thing that happened today
says the west end jungle code
and all the germans and all the french
jam themselves down the tube
and re-enact the second world war
while the rude boys get rude!

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said i never been in prison
a lifetime serving one machine
is ten times worse than prison

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TommyGunn wrote:now they got the sun, an' they got the palm trees
they got the weed, an' they got the taxis
whoa, the harder they come, n' the home of ol' bluebeat
yes i'd stay an' be a tourist but i can't take the gunplay
How many local dollars for the local anesthetic?
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JennyB wrote:If death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life.
fantastic
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THE PRISONER LIVES IN CAMDEN TOWN
SELLING REVOLUTION
THE PRISONER LOADS HIS TRACKING ARM UP
WITH SELF-DISILLUSION
YOUR MOTHER DOES THE WASHING UP
YOUR OLD MAN DIGS THE GARDEN
YOU'RE ONLY FREE TO DODGE THE COPS
AN' BUNK THE TRAIN TO STARDOM
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty


We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

"Without the common people you're nothing"

Nos Sumus Una Familia

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Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?

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I've always liked

You don't need no silicone to calculate poverty
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Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?

Post by tommygun »

...london Bridge was sold somehow / but it was too old, any how...
If Music Could Talk ( right channel)


the old dears doing the washing up / the old mans in the garden
you're only free to dodge the cops or bunk the train to stardom
The Prisoner



Who hid the radio under the stairs/ and who got caught unawares?
English Civil War


The whole of 'something About England' (couplets out of context dont work)

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Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?

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Marky Dread wrote:Don't wanna start any rumours but you know her don't you Wolter. :naughty:
The sink looked like Antietam.
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