Washington Bullets Lyrics
Oh, Mama, Mama look there
Your children are playing in that street again
Don't you know what happened down there?
A youth of fourteen got shot down there
The Kokane guns of Jamdown town
The killing clowns, the blood money men
Are shooting those Washington bullets again
As every cell in Chile will tell
The cries of the tortured men
Remember Allende and the days before
Before the army came
Please remember Víctor Jara in the Santiago stadium
Es verdad, those Washington bullets again
And in the Bay of Pigs in 1961
Havana fought the playboy in the Cuban sun
For Castro is a color is a redder than red
Those Washington bullets want Castro dead
For Castro is the color
That will earn you a spray of lead
Sandinista
For the very first time ever
When they had a revolution in Nicaragua
There was no interference from America
Human rights in America
The people fought the leader and up he flew
With no Washington bullets what else could he do?
Your children are playing in that street again
Don't you know what happened down there?
A youth of fourteen got shot down there
The Kokane guns of Jamdown town
The killing clowns, the blood money men
Are shooting those Washington bullets again
As every cell in Chile will tell
The cries of the tortured men
Remember Allende and the days before
Before the army came
Please remember Víctor Jara in the Santiago stadium
Es verdad, those Washington bullets again
And in the Bay of Pigs in 1961
Havana fought the playboy in the Cuban sun
For Castro is a color is a redder than red
Those Washington bullets want Castro dead
For Castro is the color
That will earn you a spray of lead
Sandinista
For the very first time ever
When they had a revolution in Nicaragua
There was no interference from America
Human rights in America
The people fought the leader and up he flew
With no Washington bullets what else could he do?
Sandinista
An' if you can find a Afghan rebel
That the Moscow bullets missed
Ask him what he thinks of voting communist
Ask the Dalai Lama in the hills of Tibet
How many monks did the Chinese get?
In a war torn swamp stop any mercenary
An' check the British bullets in his armory
Sandinista
¿Qué?
Sandinista
Sandinista
An' if you can find a Afghan rebel
That the Moscow bullets missed
Ask him what he thinks of voting communist
Ask the Dalai Lama in the hills of Tibet
How many monks did the Chinese get?
In a war torn swamp stop any mercenary
An' check the British bullets in his armory
Sandinista
¿Qué?
Sandinista
Sandinista
About
Genius Annotation
The melody is similar to “The Card Cheat”, but on a xylophone. This track is from the album Sandinista!, from December 1980.
Joe Strummer once again displays a comprehensive and prescient understanding of world events, bordering on clairvoyance. Years after this release, President Reagan’s final years in office will be consumed in controversy regarding the Iran-Contra scandal, wherein the US secretly sold arms to Iran for their assistance in freeing American hostages held in Lebanon, and secretly used the profits to fund the insurgents fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
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- 12.One More Dub
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- 16.Let’s Go Crazy
- 20.Midnight Log
- 21.The Equaliser
- 22.The Call Up
- 23.Washington Bullets
- 24.Broadway
- 25.Lose This Skin
- 27.Mensforth Hill
- 28.Junkie Slip
- 29.Kingston Advice
- 31.Version City
- 32.Living in Fame
- 34.Version Pardner
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Electric Lady Studios - New York City, NY
Release Date
December 12, 1980
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