Rock The Casbah Chords

Song: Rock the Casbah
Artist: The Clash
Composers: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones
           and Nicky 'Topper' Headon
Album: Combat rock
 
Tabbed by DJ  10th Oct 2015
 
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
options for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers
 
Dm7 = 557565   G     = 355433    Am = x02210
Em7 = 779787   Fmaj7 = 133200    Em = 022000
Am7 = x02010   Am/C  = x32210    F  = 133211
                                 Dm = x57765
^  = Rhythm guitar stabs
The guitar only plays the chords marked with an
arrow the piano plays the rest of the chord sequences
 
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[Intro]
   Dm7  Dm7 Em7 Dm7 Am7 G    Em7  Fmaj7 Em7 Am/C
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[Verse 1]
         Am
Now, the King told the boogie men,
Em               G                    Dm
  ...You have to let that raga drop,
    Am
The oil, down the desert way,
Em           G                  Dm
 ...Has been shaken to the top,
    Am
The Sheik, he drove his Cadillac,
Em            G                        Dm
 ...He went a cruising down the ville,
    Am
The muezzin was a-standing... 
Em         F       F          F     F  F  F
 ...On the radi - ator grille-----!       Owwww!
           ^       ^          ^     ^  ^  ^
[Chorus]
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7   Am7 G
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
          ^   ^     ^    ^   ^
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7   Am7 G
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
          ^   ^     ^    ^   ^
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
[Verse 2]
   Am
By order of the prophet,
Em      G                       Dm
  ...We ban that boogie sound,
     Am
De - generate the faithful...
Em             G                   Dm
  ...With that crazy Casbah sound,
        Am
But the Bedouin...
                            Em
...They brought out the e - lectric camel drum,
    G                           Dm
The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb,
   Am                      Em
As soon as the Shariff had cleared the square,
F         F              F
They be - gan to wail...
^         ^
[Chorus]
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7   Am7 G
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
          ^   ^     ^    ^   ^
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7   Am7 G
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
          ^   ^     ^    ^   ^
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
[Verse 3]
    Am                           Am
Now over at the temple, oh, they really pack 'em in,
    Am                                 Am
The in-crowd say it's cool to dig this chanting thing,
            F
But, as the wind changed direction,
        E
And the temple band took five,
G      Am                        Am
   The crowd got a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive
 
[Chorus]
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7   Am7 G
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
          ^   ^     ^    ^   ^
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7   Am7 G
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
          ^   ^     ^    ^   ^
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
[Verse 4]
    Am
The King called up his jet fighters,
Em                 G                      Dm
  ...He said, "You better earn your pay!
          Am
Drop your bombs between the minarets...
Em            G             Dm
  ...Down the Casbah way!"
   Am                     Em
As soon as the Sharif was chauffeured out of there,
    G                       Dm
The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare,
   Am                     Em
As soon as the Sharif was out of their hair,
    F   F                  F
The jet pilots wailed----...
    ^   ^
[Chorus]
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7   Am7 G
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
          ^   ^     ^    ^   ^
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7   Am7 G
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
          ^   ^     ^    ^   ^
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
[Coda]
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
    Am7             G
(He thinks it's not kosher!)
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
          Dm7            Em7 Dm7
The Sha - rif don't like---- it,
         Am7                G
(Funda - mentally, he can't take it!)
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
^                   ^
          Dm7            Em7  Dm7
The Sha - rif don't like----- it,
          ^    ^    ^    ^    ^
     Am7            G
(You know he really hates it!)
Em7         Fmaj7   Em7      Am/C
Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah!
 ^                  ^
[Suggestion for ending]
  Dm7  Dm7 Em7 Dm7 Am7 G    Em7  Fmaj7 Em7 Fmaj7
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