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Artist/Band: Joe Strummer
Lyrics for Song: Gangsterville
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Joe Strummer



Now's the time your visions and your shreds

Turned out to be the cheap imported threads

The flag reeled out in a cotton kite

Flying miles above the wheat lands in a single stripe

The Revolution came and the Revolution went

The chemical rain left the message on the tent

Wanted: one man to lead a crusade

Payment: a bullet on a big parade



Down in Gangsterville

Where any sane people already crawled under the house

Yeah Gangsterville, the television is always thinking about

Real people, especially when it's hungry



Final decisions are made by the club

And implemented by the shadow of a glove

And sitting in a coffeehouse reading words

We got popcorn salesmen for protection from the world

Went through extensive preparations

I learned all about the other nations

When freedom was defined as a word in a book

I learned if you're plugged into something then baby you're hooked



Into Gangsterville

I searched for a rose or some sweet juice of water

Gangsterville, people are giving

A black lady sobbed on a step--God bless the little born



On the other hand, sitting next to a evil crew

They just got down from floor eighty-two

Been selling Indian reservations

Coming in looking for some jazz and a little libations

I like the same kind of beer

I gotta get right out of here

I'm going to New Orleans--gonna buy me a prayer

Gonna call somebody from a call box there



Hell this is Gangsterville

Bring your money to the shore

No automatic weapons on the jetty

Oh Gangsterville, electro shields on the phalanx

Club the Mayor in the streets, it's a chewable fecie



My kind, we are the worst kind

Got enough shrinks working on us

To defy paralysis, identify analysis

Just wanna hold my carburetor bible

Snapping to attention, eyes on the horizon

Keep your filter clean, wipe the oil from your dreams

Keep our hopes pinned to the Southern Cross

You got to believe in something or you feel a sense of loss



Down in Gangsterville

Pelicans dying strangling on a six can strap

Gansterville shut off all the power burn out all the gasoline

Stop writing things on screens.


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Joe Strummer


Joe Strummer
"Other Songs - Joe Strummer"


1. Boogie With Your Children
2. Dizzy's Goatee
3. Gangsterville
4. Highway One Zero Street
5. Island Hopping
6. Jewellers & Bums
7. King Of The Bayou
8. Leopardskin Limousines
9. Passport To Detroit
10. Ride Your Donkey
11. Shouting Street
12. Sikorsky Parts
13. Slant Six
14. Sleepwalk