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Joe Strummer – Get Down Moses Lyrics

Rock

Once I got to the mountaintop
Tell you what I could see
Prairie full of lost souls running
From the priests of iniquity
Where the hell was Elijah?
And what do you do
When the prophecy came was true?

(Hit na na-na-na-na-na-na)
We gotta take the walls of Jericho
(Hit na na-na-na-na-na-na)
Put your lips together and blow
(Hit na na-na-na-na-na-na)
To the very top
(Hit na na-na-na-na-na-na)
Say the truth crystallizes
Like jewels
In the rock
In the rock

(Get down, Moses)
Parting of the sea
Carving of a tablet on LSD
(Get down, Moses)
I'm in Tennessee
(Get down, Moses)
Down in the street
The blood is washing down on the gravel to a beat
(Get down, Moses)
Down in the pit

Lying in a dream
Across the battlefield
Crashing on a downtown strip
Looking in the eyes of the diamonds and the spies and the hip
Who's sponsoring
The crack ghetto?
Who's lecturing?
Who's in the know and in the don't know?

(Hit na na-na-na-na-na-na)
We better take the walls of Jericho
(Hit na na-na-na-na-na-na)
Put your lips together and blow
(Hit na na-na-na-na-na-na)
Going to the very top
(Hit na na-na-na-na-na-na)
Where the truth crystallizes
Like jewels
In the rock
In the rock

(Get down, Moses)
From the Eagles I read
You gotta make a new friend out of old enemies
(Get down, Moses)
Back in Tennessee
(Get down, Moses)
Down with the dreads
Got a lotta reason in the in the dread head
(Get down, Moses)
Down in the street

(Get down, Moses)
Parting of the sea
Carving of a tablet on LSD
(Get down, Moses)
I'm in Tennessee
(Get down, Moses)
Down in the street
The blood is washing down on the gravel to a beat
(Get down, Moses)
Down in the pit

(Get down, Moses)

(Get down, Moses)
We need to eat
We gotta chew it over with our wisdom teeth
(Get down, Moses)
Chuffin'

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