Rock The Casbah

Now the King told the boogie men, "You have to let that raga dropThe oil down the desert way, has been shakin' to the top"

The Sheikh he drove his

Cadillac, he went a cruisin' down the

VilleThe Muezzin was a' standing on the radiator grille

The Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahThe

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahBy order of the

Prophet, we ban that boogie sound

Degenerate the faithful with that crazy casbah sound

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

The Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahThe

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahNow 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 then the temple band took five

The crowd caught a wiff of that crazy casbah jive

The Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahThe

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahThe

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

As soon as the

Shareef was outta their hair the jet pilots wailed

The Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahThe

Shareef don't like it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahThe

Shareef don't like it

He thinks it's not kosher

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahThe

Shareef don't like it

Fundamentally he can't take it

Rockin' the

Casbah, rock the

CasbahThe

Shareef don't like it

You know he really hates it