Rock the Casbah (Remastered) Lyrics

Now the king told the boogie men

"You have to let that raga drop"

The oil down the desert way

Has been shaken to the top

The Sheik he drove his Cadillac

He went a-cruisin' down the ville

The Muezzin was a-standin'

On the radiator grille, ow

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

The Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet

We'll ban that boogie sound

Degenerate the faithful

With that crazy Casbah sound

But the Bedouin they brought out an electric camel drum

The local guitar picker got his guitar pickin' thumb

As soon as the Shareef had cleared the square

They began to wail

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

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 caught a whiff

Of that crazy Casbah jive

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

The king called up his jet fighters

He said, "You better earn your pay

Drop your bombs between the minarets

Down the Casbah way"

As soon as the Shareef was chauffeured outta there

The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare

Soon as the Shareef was outta their hair

The jet pilots wail

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it, he thinks it's not kosher

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it, fundamentally can't take it

Rockin' the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it, you know he really hates it

Rockin' the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it, really, really hates it