JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Grup band asal Inggris, The Clash, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Washington Bullets”.
Lagu bergenre punk rock tersebut dirilis pada 1980 melalui label Epic Records.
“Washington Bullets” muncul dalam album studio keempat mereka yang bertajuk Sandinista!.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Corner Soul - The Clash
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Washington Bullets” dari The Clash.
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Oh! Mama, Mama look there!
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Your children are playing in that street again
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Don't you know what happened down there?
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A youth of fourteen got shot down there
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The Kokane guns of Jamdown Town
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The killing clowns, the blood money men
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Are shooting those Washington bullets again
[Verse]
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As every cell in Chile will tell
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The cries of the tortured men
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Remember Allende, and the days before,
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Before the army came
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Please remember Victor Jara,
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In the Santiago Stadium,
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Es verdad, those Washington Bullets again
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And in the Bay of Pigs in 1961,
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Havana fought the playboy in the Cuban sun,
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For Castro is a color,
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Is a redder than red,
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Those Washington bullets want Castro dead
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For Castro is the color...
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...That will earn you a spray of lead
[Chorus]
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(...instrumental...)
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Sandinista!
[Verse]
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For the very first time ever,
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When they had a revolution in Nicaragua,
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There was no interference from America
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Human rights in America
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The people fought the leader,
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And up he flew...
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With no Washington bullets what else could he do?
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Sandinista!
[Verse]
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And if you can find a Afghan rebel
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That the Moscow bullets missed
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Ask him what he thinks of voting Communist...
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...Ask the Dalai Lama in the hills of Tibet,
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How many monks did the Chinese get?
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In a war-torn swamp stop any mercenary,
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And check the British bullets in his armory
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Sandinista! Qué?
[Chorus]
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(...instrumental...)
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Sandinista!