Joe Strummer

From Voodoo Shoppe

[edit] Notes

  • Written by Fred LeBlanc/John Thomas Griffith/Paul Sanchez/Mary LaSange/Mitch Allen
  • Produced & engineered by Mitch Allen
  • Mixed by Russ T Cobb
  • Recorded at Paradigm, New Orleans, LA
  • Additional Musicians: Mary LaSange, bass

[edit] Appears On

Voodoo Shoppe (album)


[edit] Lyrics

She had all the tattoos and the piercings
Hates everything says everybody’s wrong
She dressed like she slept with Guns and Roses 
But I busted her singin’ all the boy bands songs

She had to go simply because
And I let her go like she never was
‘Cause I didn’t know, and I don’t care what she does
She had to go ‘cause she didn’t know who 
Joe Strummer was

At night when we stood in line for hours
Waiting to see my favorite punk rock band
I bled with the passion and the power
But she’d only there for all the fashion trends with her clueless friends

She had to go simply because
And I let her go like she never was
‘Cause I didn’t know, and I don’t care what she does
She had to go ‘cause she didn’t know who 
Joe Strummer was

She started talking ‘bout being my wife
But why would I wanna be with someone who doesn't know 
The Clash saved my life

It’s not hat she didn’t rock my casbah
It’s not that I couldn’t burn her London down
It’s just that she kept on disappearing
Whenever the Sandinistas came to town and burned it down

She had to go simply because
And I let her go like she never was
‘Cause I didn’t know, and I don’t care what she does
She had to go ‘cause she didn’t know who 
Joe Strummer was

She don’t know Joe
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