"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 cruisin' down the ville
The Muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grill

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

Bu 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 piker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the Shareef cleared the square
They began to wail

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

Wail over at the temple
Oh they really pack'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
And as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a whiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

The King called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop the 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

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

The Shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah