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Song title:   Rock The Casbah
Album:        Combat Rock

Words and Music by Topper Headon, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones
Copyright © 1982 CBS Records Inc.
Published by CBS Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
There are tonalities in the song that are played by the piano, so if
you're planning to busk this, you'll really need to fill in the missing bits,
somehow. Have a listen...

In the INTRO, the strumming of the Dm7 is 1-2-34-56. But on "4", you play G7 
(followed again by Dm7). 

In the CHORUS, the guitar just plays the INTRO figure over the two sung vocal
lines. The other chords I've added (i.e. Am and F) follow more the sung 
vocal line, which might make it sound better. So you could have one guitar
play the INTRO figure and the other play the chords I've indicated.
See what you think. It's just a suggestion...

Timing is 4/4. Enjoy...


INTRO:    [play x2]


 Guitar1

   Dm7   G7   Dm7       Em7      E7
|--5-/-/-7-/--5-------|-7------|-7------|
|--5-/-/-6-/--5-------|-8------|-9------|
|--5-/-/-7-/--5-------|-7------|-7------|
|---------------------|-9------|-9------|
|---------------------|--------|--------|
|---------------------|--------|--------|
|                                       |
|                                       |
|Guitar2                                |
|                                       |
|  Dm7   G7   Dm7       Em7      E7     |
|--5-/-/-3-/--5-------|-7------|-7------|
|--6-/-/-3-/--6-------|-8------|-9------|
|--5-/-/-4-/--5-------|-7------|-7------|
|--7-/-/-3-/--7-------|-9------|-9------|
|--5-/-/-5-/--5-------|-7------|-7------|
|--5-/-/-3-/--5-------|-7------|-7------|




VERSE:
         Am
Now, the king told the boogie men,
             Dm7
"You have to let that raga drop."
    Am
The oil down the desert way
         Dm7
Has been shaking to the top.
    Am
The sheik he drove his cadillac
          Dm7
He went a cruisin' down the ville.
    Am
The Muezzin was a-standing
       F
On the radiator grille.
 

CHORUS:
   Dm7        Am
Shareef don't like it!         
Em7      F       E7       F
Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah!
   Dm7        Am
Shareef don't like it!         
Em7      F       E7       F
Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah!

 
VERSE:
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.


[repeat CHORUS]


VERSE:
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.


[repeat CHORUS]


VERSE:
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 soon as the Shareef was chauffered out of there,
The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare.
As soon as the Shareef was outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed.


[Repeat CHORUS]


OUTRO:
   Dm7        Am
Shareef don't like it! (He thinks it's not kosher!)
Em7      F       E7       F
Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah!  
   Dm7        Am
Shareef don't like it! (Fundamentally, he can't take it!)  
Em7      F       E7       F
Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah!  
   Dm7        Am
Shareef don't like it! (You know he really hates it!)
Em7      F       E7       F
Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah!  


[repeat to fade]



CHORDS:
Dm7     557565 and xxx555
G7      353433 and xxx767
Am      577555
Em7     779787 and xx9787
E7      779797
F       x8 10 10 10 8