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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer
Composer
Martin Slattery
Martin Slattery
Songwriter
Luke Bullen
Luke Bullen
Composer
Simon Stafford
Simon Stafford
Songwriter
Scott Shields
Scott Shields
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Martin Slattery
Martin Slattery
Producer
Scott Shields
Scott Shields
Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Once I got to the mountaintop, tell you what I could see
Prairie full of lost souls running from the priests of iniquity
Where the hell was Elijah?
What do you do when the prophecy game was through?
[Verse 2]
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
We gotta take the walls of Jericho
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Put your lips together and blow
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
To the very top
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Say the truth crystallizes
Like jewels in the rock
In the rock
[Verse 3]
Get down Moses, part another sea
Carve another tablet out of LSD
Get down Moses, out in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down in the street
The blood is rushing down all the gravel to our feet
Get down Moses, down in the pit
[Verse 4]
Lying in a dream across a battlefield
Crashing on a downtown strip
Looking in the eyes of the diamonds, and the spies, and the hip
Who's sponsoring the crack ghetto?
Who's lecturing? Who's in the know and in the don't know?
[Verse 5]
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
We gotta take the walls of Jericho
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Put your lips together and blow
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Goin' to the very top
Na, na-na, na-na, na-na
Where the truth crystallizes
Like jewels in the rock
In the rock
[Verse 6]
Get down Moses, from the eagle aerie
You gotta make a new friend out of old enemies
Get down Moses, back in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down with the dreads
They got a lot of reasoning in the dread head
Get down Moses, down in the street
[Verse 7]
Get down Moses, part another sea
Carve another tablet out of LSD
Get down Moses, out in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down in the street
The blood is rushing down all the gravel to our feet
Get down Moses, down in the pit
[Verse 8]
Get down Moses
Get down Moses
Get down Moses, we need to eat
We gotta chew it over with our wisdom teeth
Get down Moses
Written by: John Mellor, Scott Shields, Martin Paul Slattery, Simon Edward Stafford

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