Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Joe Strummer
Guitar
Mick Jones
Guitar
Paul Simonon
Bass
Topper Headon
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Joe Strummer
Songwriter
Topper Headon
Songwriter
Paul Simonon
Songwriter
Mick Jones
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
The Clash
Producer
Bill Price
Mixing Engineer
Tim Young
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Intro]
The magnificent seven
[Verse 1]
Ring ring, it's seven AM
Move yourself to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place
Knuckle merchants and your bankers too
Must get up and learn those rules
Weather man and the crazy chief
One says "Sun" and one says "Sleet"
AM and the FM, the PM too
Turnin' out that boogaloo
Gets you up and it gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?
Gimme Honda, gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollar, Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence
[Chorus]
You lot! What?
Don't stop, give it all you got
You lot! What?
Don't stop, yeah
[Chorus]
You lot! What?
Don't stop, give it all you got
You lot! What?
Don't stop, yeah
[Verse 2]
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 and you're one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag and the hours jerk
[Bridge]
Yeah, wave bye-bye
[Verse 3]
Wave buh-buh-buh-bye to the boss
It's our profit, it's his loss
But anyway the lunch bell ring
Take one hour and do your thang
Cheeseboiger
[Verse 4]
What do we have for entertainment?
Cops kicking Gypsies on the pavement
Now the news has snapped to attention
Lunar landing of the dentist convention
Italian mobster shoots a lobster
Seafood restaurant gets out of hand
Car in the fridge, a fridge in the car
Like cowboys do in TV Land
[Chorus]
You lot! What?
Don't stop, give it all you got
You lot! What?
Don't stop, huh
[Chorus]
You lot! What?
Don't stop, give it all you got, yeah
You lot! What?
Don't stop
[Verse 5]
So get back to work and sweat some more
The sun will sink and we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hit the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you're not getting anywhere?
[Verse 6]
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
Take your car outta that gear
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
Get your car outta that gear
Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence
[Bridge]
What do we got? Yeah, oh
A'what do we got? Yeah, oh
What do we got? Magnificence (I say)
What do we got?
[Verse 7]
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 50-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You'll 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, hoo
[Bridge]
Bye-bye
Buh-bye
[Outro]
The Magnificent Seven
Magnificent
Magnificent
Seven
[Outro]
This is fuckin' long, innit?
Written by: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon
