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IanB
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Edited Dec 14, 2009, 16:52
Re: Cope vs. The Clash
Dec 14, 2009, 16:48
sanshee wrote:
IanB wrote:

Strummer was memorable for the odd stirring couplet,


See it's soon as I heard the atrociously trite 'Let me tell you bout your blood bamboo kid, it ain't coca cola it's rice' that made me, aged 15, think of them forever more as sheer offensive toss.

I'm sure those children out there didn't realise how wretched things were for them until the son of a diplomat had to tell it to em straight!

:-)

x



Well put like that it isn't exactly Walter Benjamin but it was an improvement on

>I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad,
But I knew love before I left my nursery,
Left alone with big fat Fanny<

If "write what you know" is the best advice you can get as a lyricist then I am not sure that Joe Strummer and Freddie weren't both being somewhat economical with la verite.
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