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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.
by kate on 12/4/2008 9:20am there will never be another Joe Strummer, RIP Joe xx
by tommy on 12/18/2008 8:07pm saw the CLASH 13 times @ bonds in NYC THE BEST SHOWS EVER!! saw joe strummer band shortly after JOEY RAMONE died rip joey and joe did 2-3 ramones covers strummer&joey,johnny and dee dee are still rocking upstairs.
by Kev Burn on 12/22/2008 10:25am Rest in Peace Joe, you are a legend.
by Gary on 1/4/2009 8:09pm Just watched Rude Boy. Joe was so talented. Sometimes you have to just turn off the music, read his lyrics, to appreciate the depth of the man.
by jarek on 1/12/2009 9:37am The Clash is the best band ever.There will never be another. VIVA JOE STRUMMER!!!!
by CAKE on 1/13/2009 9:05pm joe strummer your my hero ;] too bad music isnt this good anymore we all miss you
by Brett on 1/24/2009 10:26am I saw The Clash in 1979 in Boston and was blown away, and was lucky enough to see them two more times in the next few years. Probably the best live performance band ever for me, and I saw lots of 'em in my punk rock days! "White Man" was always one of my faves. Boston was hip to The Clash from early on - when London Calling was released, Boston DJ Oedipus famously played the entire album non-stop on his radio show on WBCN, accurately predicting that it would go on to be regarded as a groundbreaking record. It's now considered by some to be the best album of the 1980s and one of the best rock albums of all time. Nuff said!
by Dave on 2/12/2009 9:34am I was the archetypal Part-Time Punk, as brilliantly depicted by the Television Personalities (po-going in the bedroom but only when my mum goes out!). The early Clash were too rough and noisy for my liking, yet there was something about White Man that was just brilliant raw rock/reggae. l still have the single and have just done a vinyl-MP3 copy for the iPod. Punk for the new-age, eh? It's still a great song.
by Brad on 3/2/2009 2:03am Best song by the only band that matters. :)
by zach on 3/18/2009 7:21pm the only band that mattered, it's what im entitling the 10 page research paper im writing on them. each fact I learned the more I fell in love with the clash and joe even deeper. Joe will forever be a legend. I wish I was older so I might have had the chance to meet him.
by yxola on 3/27/2009 1:40am best song ever from the BEST band ever
by frank on 3/28/2009 9:06pm best clash song ever! punki reggae party on !!!!!!!!!!!
by chvic on 5/7/2009 9:50am Truly one of the best songs ever written
by ilovetheclash on 6/21/2009 3:54pm it almost makes me cry that i will never get to see them perform - a true band, with true meaning who made true music. RIP Joe :(
by BB on 8/18/2009 1:16am ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER IN MUSIC HISTORY WITH A STRONG NOTE ON SOCIETY'S EVER GROWING ISSUES. VIVA THE CLASH.... Joe stummer & the Mascaleros... Rip Joe
by no worries on 10/1/2009 9:42pm i'll bring the spirit of this music back for everyone. it lives in all of us.
by breakya on 10/14/2009 6:33am Well having discovered the Clash at 16 yrs, From Here To Eternity being my first Clash album, always loving this song, all I have to say the world lost a great great man. Joe Strummer was a person (not idealizing) who had a big heart and a conscious intelligent mind to go with it. Memory of him will never die, just the pain and the occasional tear in all of us who got to know him through his non less than epic music. RIP Joe Strummer.

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