London Calling Lyrics The Clash

from Essential Clash

Essential Clash Other Album Songs
1 London Calling
2 White Riot Single Version
3 London's Burning
4 Guns of Brixton
5 Complete Control
6 Clampdown
7 Clash City Rockers
8 Rudie Can't Fail
9 Lost In The Supermarket
10 I'm So Bored With The Usa
11 Career Opportunities
12 Jimmy Jazz
13 Hate And War
14 Train in Vain
15 Cheat
16 Bankrobber
17 The Magnificent Seven
18 Police And Thieves
19 Janie Jones
20 Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
21 Garageland
22 Police On My Back
23 Capital Radio One
24 Stop the World
25 White Man In Hammersmith Palais
26 Somebody Got Murdered
27 English Civil War
28 The Street Parade
29 This Is Radio Clash
30 Tommy Gun
31 Ghetto Defendant
32 Safe European Home
33 Rock The Casbah
34 Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad
35 Straight To Hell
36 Stay Free
37 Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
38 Groovy Times
39 I Fought the Law
40 This Is England

"London Calling" is track #1 on the album Essential Clash. It was written by Strummer, Joe / Jones, Mick / Simonon, Paul / Headon, Topper.

London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin' thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath
London calling and I don't want to shout
But when we were talking I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eye

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear era, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear era, but I have no fear
London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

Now get this

London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
And after all this, won't you give me a smile?

I never felt so much a' like a'like a'like

Songwriters
STRUMMER, JOE / JONES, MICK / SIMONON, PAUL / HEADON, TOPPER

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