If you can play on the 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
There ain't no need for ya
There ain't no need for ya
Go straight to Hell boys
Go straight to Hell boys
Y'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 Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Of you and Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola it's rice.
Straight to Hell, boys
Go straight to Hell, boys
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
So Mamma-san said
You wanna play mind-crazed banjo
On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
In Parkland International
Hey! Junkiedom U.S.A.
Where procaine proves the purest rock man groove
and rat poison
The volatile Molotov says-
PSSST...
HEY CHICO WE GOT A MESSAGE FOR YA... SI...
VAMOS VAMOS MUCHACHO
FROM ALPHABET CITY ALL THE WAY A TO Z, DEAD, HEAD
Go straight to Hell, boys
Go straight to Hell, boys
Straight to Hell
Oh Papa-San
Please take me home
There ain't no need for ya,
There ain't no need for ya
Go straight to Hell, boys
Go straight to Hell, boys
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
Ain't no asylum here
King Solomon he never lived round here
Straight to Hell, boys
Go straight to Hell, boys
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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Review about Straight to Hell Hello | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/4/2008
Solomon was renowned for his wisdom in accepting all cultures to his Kingdom. This song resonates again in 2008 USa (little case is intentional) as we seek to discriminate against immigrants from that "other America."
The majority of this song reflects Strummer's thorough understanding of our nation's impact on the vietnamese, from Dien Bien Phu to the time we finally realized our abject failure in 1975.
So Mama-San says | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/19/2008
Not American, Western. That's "them damned Brits" as well and prejudices against the immigrant work force.
Mostly, to me it's about the Amerasian children that were bred and abandoned by GIs in Vietnam. King Solomon never really had much to do with Western civilization.
This is a great song. It really touches me. I agree, i believe it's a song about the american society and how it's let it's people down in the past. and the parts where joe says, "papasan, please take me home." it really touches me and brings tears to my eyes.
i listen to this song (from the here to eternity live album track recorded in '82 boston usa), and shivers run down my spine, it is probably one of the most powerful performances by the clash.
its perfectly played and perfectly sung.
in my opinion its a song about american society and how its let down its people
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