Coma Girl

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

I was crawling through a festival way out west
I was thinking about love and the acid test
But first I got real dizzy with a real rocking gang
And then I saw the Coma Girl and the excitement gang

And the rain came in from the wide blue yonder
Through all the stages I wandered

Oh, Coma Girl and the excitement gang
Mona Lisa on a motorcycle gang
Coma Girl
Coma Girl

Coma Girl was beating with the oil drum gang
Some fast food fanatic was burning down a burger van
Somebody was wailing off their head, oh
Nobody was ripping the teen scene dead

And the rain came in from the wide blue yonder
I thought you and me might wander

Oh, Coma Girl and the excitement gang
Mona Lisa on a motorcycle gang
Coma Girl
Coma Girl on a motorcycle gang

As the nineteenth hour was falling upon Desolation Row
Some outlaw band had the last drop on the go
Let's siphon up some gas, let's get this show on the road
Said the Coma Girl to the excitement gang

Into action everybody sprang
The oil drums were beating out dulang, dulang

Coma Girl and the excitement gang
Oh, Mona Lisa on a motorcycle gang
Coma Girl (dulang, dulang)
Coma Girl (dulang, dulang)

Mona, baby
Mo-Mona, baby (dulang, dulang)
Mona, baby
Mo-Mona, baby (dulang, dulang)

Hey-ho, yeah-ho, let it roll
(Dulang, dulang)
(Dulang, dulang)


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Coma Girl Lyrics as written by Paul Slattery Joe Strummer

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    I remember when a journalist said that joe strummer was in his aging gracefully stage like johnny cash, neil young and tom waits. It seems like joe's life was cut too short, this song shows that he aged gracefully into many genres like the other artists, but still kept a young spirit inside of himself, punk might have died out, but not inside joe strummer

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