🎵 Straight to Hell // by The Clash
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"Straight to Hell" is a song by The Clash, from their album Combat Rock. It was released as a double 'A' side single with "Should I Stay or Should I Go" on September 17, 1982 in 12" and 7" vinyl format (the 7" vinyl is a picture disc).
Like those of many songs by the Clash, the lyrics of "Straight to Hell" decry injustice. The first verse refers to the shutting down of steel mills in Northern England and the alienation and racism suffered by immigrants despite their attempts to integrate into British society. Read more on Last.fm.
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51 ContributorsStraight to Hell Lyrics
“Straight to Hell” is a song about immigration, from a British and American perspective.… Read More
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
If you can play on fiddle
How's about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King's English in quotation
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
Water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise
[Chorus]
There ain't no need for ya
There ain't no need for ya
Go straight to hell, boys
Go straight to hell, boys
[Verse 2]
Wanna join in a chorus of the Amerasian blues?
When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh City
Kiddie say papa, papa, papa, papa, papa-san, take me home
See me got photo, photo, photograph of you
And mama, mama, mama-san
Of you and mama, mama, mama-san
Let me tell ya 'bout your blood, bamboo kid
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice
[Chorus]
Straight to hell, boy
Go straight to hell, boy
Go straight to hell, boys
Go straight to hell, boy
[Bridge]
Oh papa-san, please take me home
Oh papa-san, everybody, they wanna go home
So mama-san says
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
"You wanna play mind-crazed banjo
On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
In Parkland International, hah, Junkiedom U.S.A
Where Procaine proves the purest rock man groove and rat poison"
The volatile Molotov says
"Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh
Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, straight to hell"
[Verse 4]
Can you cough it up, loud and strong?
The immigrants, they wanna sing all night long
It could be anywhere, most likely could be any frontier
Any hemisphere
No man's land
There ain't no asylum here
King Solomon, he never lived 'round here
[Outro]
Straight to hell, boy
Go straight to hell, boy
Go straight to hell, boys
Go straight to hell, boys
Oh papa-san, please take me home
Oh papa-san, everybody, they wanna go home now
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