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The Magnificent Seven Lyrics
Ring
Ring
It's seven A.M.
Move yourself to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place
Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too
Must get up an' learn those rules
Weather man and the crazy chief
One says sun and one says sleet
A.M., the F.M. the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?
Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence
You lot
What?
Don't stop
Give it all you got
You lot
What?
Don't stop
Yeah
Working for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to sophistication
She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard I seen the price
Never mind that it's time for the bus
We got to work an' you're one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag and the hours jerk
When can I tell 'em wot I do?
In a second, man, o right Chuck
Wave bub-bub-bub-bye to the boss
It's our profit, it's his loss
But anyway lunch bells ring
Take one hour and do your thang
Cheeesboiger
What do we have for entertainment?
Cops kickin' Gypsies on the pavement
Now the news - snap to attention!
The lunar landing of the dentist convention
Italian mobster shoots a lobster
Seafood restaurant gets out of hand
A car in the fridge
Or a fridge in the car?
Like cowboys do in T.V. land
You lot
What?
Don't stop
Huh?
So get back to work an' sweat some more
The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To take your car outta that gear
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To get your car outta that gear
Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the seven eleven
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence
What have we got?
Yeh-o, magnificence
Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win fifty-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Ooh
Bub-bye
Magnificence
Ring
It's seven A.M.
Move yourself to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place
Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too
Must get up an' learn those rules
Weather man and the crazy chief
One says sun and one says sleet
A.M., the F.M. the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?
Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence
What?
Don't stop
Give it all you got
You lot
What?
Don't stop
Yeah
Take my baby to sophistication
She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard I seen the price
Never mind that it's time for the bus
We got to work an' you're one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag and the hours jerk
In a second, man, o right Chuck
It's our profit, it's his loss
But anyway lunch bells ring
Take one hour and do your thang
Cheeesboiger
Cops kickin' Gypsies on the pavement
Now the news - snap to attention!
The lunar landing of the dentist convention
Italian mobster shoots a lobster
Seafood restaurant gets out of hand
A car in the fridge
Or a fridge in the car?
Like cowboys do in T.V. land
What?
Don't stop
Huh?
The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To take your car outta that gear
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To get your car outta that gear
Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the seven eleven
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence
Yeh-o, magnificence
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win fifty-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Ooh
Bub-bye
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Well, this song sums up working life pretty perfectly. Spend all day making money for the shareholders, get your tiny little cut that they call a wage or salary, then go piss it away on drink at the weekend so that you can stay just sane enough to hang in there for a brand new week of the same. I'd never been able to decipher the line about 'taking my baby to sophistication' and needing to work hard because 'I've seen the price.' Now that I have I think it's brilliant.
Probably about being able to give your girl all the material possessions she wants but you can't because they're too expensive for that insignificant cut of the shareholders money they call a salary
Probably about being able to give your girl all the material possessions she wants but you can't because they're too expensive for that insignificant cut of the shareholders money they call a salary
The Clash where WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME, this song is cleary an early rap/funk song
Reform and Counterreform in the Bureaucratic Bloc
...If ever an event had cast its shadow ahead of itself long before it happened, it was, for those who know how to read modern history, the Russian intervention in Czechoslovakia. It was long contemplated and, despite all its international repercussions, virtually inevitable. By bringing into question the omnipotence of bureaucratic power, Dubcek’s adventurous – though necessary – effort began to imperil this same power wherever it was to be found, and thus became intolerable. Six hundred thousand soldiers (almost as many as the Americans in Vietnam) were sent to put a brutal stop to it. Thus when the “antisocialist” and “counterrevolutionary” forces, continually conjured up and exorcised by all the bureaucrats, finally appeared, they appeared not under the portrait of Benes(4) or armed by “revanchist Germans,” but in the uniform of the “Red” Army.
A remarkable popular resistance was carried on for seven days – “the magnificent seven” – mobilizing virtually the entire population against the invaders. Paradoxically, distinctly revolutionary methods of struggle were taken up for the defense of a reformist bureaucracy. But what was not carried out in the course of the movement could certainly not he carried out under the occupation: the Russian troops, having enabled the Dubcekists to brake the revolutionary process as much as possible while they were at the borders, also enabled them to control the whole resistance movement after August 21. They played exactly the same role the American troops do in North Vietnam: the role of ensuring the masses’ unanimous support for the bureaucracy that exploits them...
SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL September 1969
http://bopsecrets.org/
The Magnificent Seven were the 7 public cemeteries built outside Victorian London because the city graveyards got too full. This song is about busting your butt only to have your final rest in one of the Seven.. In 1832 Parliament passed a bill encouraging the establishment of seven private cemeteries in a ring around outer London, to provide ample space for burial. These are known today as the Magnificent Seven. The first to open, in 1832, was Kensal Green, followed by West Norwood (1837), Highgate Cemetery (1839), Nunhead (1840), Brompton (1840), Abney Park (1840), and Tower Hamlets (1841),
The Magnificent Seven were the 7 public cemeteries built outside Victorian London because the city graveyards got too full. This song is about busting your butt only to have your final rest in one of the Seven.. In 1832 Parliament passed a bill encouraging the establishment of seven private cemeteries in a ring around outer London, to provide ample space for burial. These are known today as the Magnificent Seven. The first to open, in 1832, was Kensal Green, followed by West Norwood (1837), Highgate Cemetery (1839), Nunhead (1840), Brompton (1840), Abney Park (1840), and Tower Hamlets (1841),
The Magnificent Seven appealed in particular to the newly emerging middle...
The Magnificent Seven appealed in particular to the newly emerging middle class, keen to distance itself from the working class and to present to the public its social status. Graves were seen as a public extension to the family’s property, and cemeteries such as the Magnificent Seven provided a secure, well-maintained, costly place for families to establish permanent monuments to themselves — an immortality of sorts.
hehe brilliant lyrics and music. Just so good, one of my favs
I always thought the title referred to 7am though (like the first line) - i.e. the magnificent start to the dreary day
CHEESEBOIGA!
One of their best...There's a reason they're legends. Great bass!
The hustle and bustle, but what for...a mundane way of life? Makes you want to bust out of the cage, skip the cheeesboiger, and have lunch with a good friend down by the water. Mental/physical healthy one hour escape before the much dreaded return to cage!
And I didn't mean to skip through the actual societal context, it's just been explained well by the others. ;)
And I didn't mean to skip through the actual societal context, it's just been explained well by the others. ;)
"You lot! What? Don't stop! Give it all you got! You lot! What? Don't stop! Yeah!"
sounds better on the live version...
best part of this song (not in the lyrics up there) : "fucking long innit?"
This is by far my favorite Clash song. Joe Strummer is my hero