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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Specials
The Specials
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Jerry Dammers
Jerry Dammers
Composer
Terry Hall
Terry Hall
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Jerry Dammers
Jerry Dammers
Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Warning! Warning! Nuclear attack!
[Verse 2]
Atomic sounds designed to blow your mind
World War Three
[Verse 3]
Nuclear, nuclear attack
[Verse 4]
Rockin' atomically
[Verse 5]
This Third World War
[Verse 6]
Atomic sounds
[Verse 7]
The man in black, he told me
The latest Moscow news about the storm across the Red Sea
They drove their ball point views
[Verse 8]
I'm the man in grey
I'm just the man at C&A
And I don't have a say
In the war games that they play
[Verse 9]
Warning! Warning! Nuclear attack!
Shark attack to hit you on your back
[Verse 10]
World War Three
[Verse 11]
The Mickey Mouse badge told the Ayatollah at his feet
"You drink your oil, you schmuck! We'll eat our heads of wheat"
[Verse 12]
But I'm the man in grey
I'm just the man at C&A
And I don't have a say
In the war games that they play
[Verse 13]
Boom shakalaka boom
Nuclear, nuclear
Nuclear war
[Verse 14]
Warning! Warning! Nuclear attack!
The boom never ban
Shark attack
Written by: Jerry Dammers, Terry Hall

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