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White Man In Hammersmith Palais Lyrics

Artist: The Clash
Album: Clash

(Strummer/Jones)

Midnight to six man
For the first time from Jamaica
Dillinger and Leroy Smart
Delroy Wilson, your cool operator

Ken Boothe for UK pop reggae
With backing bands sound systems
And if they've got anything to say
There's many black ears here to listen

But it was Four Tops all night with encores from stage right
Charging from the bass knives to the treble
But onstage they ain't got no roots rock rebel
Onstage they ain't got no...roots rock rebel

Dress back jump back this is a bluebeat attack
'Cos it won't get you anywhere
Fooling with your guns
The British Army is waiting out there
An' it weighs fifteen hundred tons

White youth, black youth
Better find another solution
Why not phone up Robin Hood
And ask him for some wealth distribution

Punk rockers in the UK
They won't notice anyway
They're all too busy fighting
For a good place under the lighting

The new groups are not concerned
With what there is to be learned
They got Burton suits, ha you think it's funny
Turning rebellion into money

All over people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd send a limousine anyway

I'm the all night drug-prowling wolf
Who looks so sick in the sun
I'm the white man in the Palais
Just lookin' for fun

I'm only
Looking for fun

Comments/Interpretations
by Bosswave on 7/2/2008 12:25am BEST SONG EVER!!
by Half Biscuit on 7/10/2008 12:12pm The best song ever sung by the best band ever!!
by Seattle stinky on 7/17/2008 2:20pm I was 17 when I discovered the Clash. Having the coolest band around at that tender age is almost more nostalgia than I can take sometimes. I always loved this song, but then I heard Complete Control and realized what a great song that was as well. How we need another Clash....
by Kurasuke on 8/1/2008 2:52pm Yeah, its too bad that there is nobody around to make the amazing music of the Clash, or bands like 'em. RIP Joe
by Salem on 8/23/2008 8:30pm I am a total Clash groupie. I know over 45 of their songs by heart; I cried when Joe died back in 2002. <3 Forever!
by JB on 9/6/2008 4:25pm The white man in Hammersmith Palais is non dead, RIP joe
by JUstin B on 9/25/2008 9:23am There will never be another Clash. Cheers Joe
by gnar on 11/3/2008 4:36pm im still pissed i never got to see the clash, i found out about them too late. r.i.p. joe
by Punk.is.my.religion. on 11/23/2008 5:17pm R.i.p. Joe. There will never be another clash.

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