Rock The Casbah

[Intro:  ]Dm7 ...  Am G Em F Em C 2x 


Am                                 Em7  
Now, the king told the boogie men,  
   
            G7                  Dm7  
you have to let that raga drop.  
   
    Am                        Em7  
The oil down the desert way  
   
         G7                    Dm7  
has been shaking to the top.  
   
    Am                        Em7  
The sheik he drove his cadillac  
   
          G7                   Dm7  
he went a cruisin down the ville.  
   
    Am                        Em7  
The Muezzin was a standing  
   
       F / /   / 
On the radiator grille.  
   
chorus:  
   
   Dm7                Am  G  
Shareef don't like it.  
   
Em7       F        Em7           C  
Rock the Casbah. Rock the Casbah.  
   
  Dm7                 Am    G  
Shareef don't like it.  
   
Em7      F       Em7         C  
Rock the Casbah. Rock the Casbah.  
   
   
By order of the prophet  
We ban that boogie sound.  
Degenerate the faithful  
With that crazy Casbah sound.  
But the Bedouin, they brought out the electric camel drum.  
The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb.  
As soon as the Shareef had cleared the square,  
They began to wail.  
   
Chorus  
   
Now over at the temple  
Oh, they really pack em in.  
The in crowd say it's cool  
To dig this chanting thing.  
But as the wind changed direction  
and the temple band took five  
The crowd got a whiff  
Of that crazy casbah jive.  
   
Chorus  
   
The king called up his jet fighters,  
He said, you better earn your pay.  
Drop your bombs down between the minarets  
Down the casbah way.  
As sson as the Shareef was chauffered out of there,  
The jet pilote tuned to the cockpit radio blare.  
As soon as the Shareef was outta their hair  
The jet pilots wailed.  
   
Chorus to extro.