Lyrics for The Magnificent Seven as interpreted by Punkloser71

The Magnificent Seven Lyrics
Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.!
Move why'self 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, maaan...oright 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 thanng!
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 7-11
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 50-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
Oooohh...bub-bye

Magnificence!!
---
"The Magnificent Seven" as written by Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Topper Headon
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics powerd by LyricFind



Add to Mixtape  (view all)






  • Lyric Tags
Earn points by tagging lyrics!


  • 28 Comments
  • Printer Friendly Lyrics
oldest first     Expand All
rahtwinkle
10-12-2002

 Rated  0 
"You lot! What?
Don't stop! Give it all you got!
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Yeah!"

sounds better on the live version...

Log in to reply
queenjane
09-29-2004

 Rated  0 
best part of this song (not in the lyrics up there) :
"fucking long innit?"

Log in to reply
LolaBat
10-21-2004

 Rated  -1 
This song should just be called Magnificant!

Log in to reply
sabresfanwp7
11-16-2004

 Rated  0 
This is by far my favorite Clash song. Joe Strummer is my hero

Log in to reply
geradeaus
12-12-2004

 Rated  0 
I hear this song whenever I have to walk anywhere. It's a good pace-setter...walking like Mag 7 is where you want to be in life

Log in to reply
albanyankee
02-03-2005

 Rated  +3 
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.

Log in to reply
1 Reply  · 
JoE][BoXeR
03-23-2005

 Rated  0 
Clash masterpiece. The first real, white rappers here hehe. And I'm not ashamed to say that.

Log in to reply
Whatsername1251
04-22-2005

 Rated  0 
Soon as I hear the start of this song I just kinda start dancing lol. It\'s great!

Log in to reply
Baller
05-07-2005

 Rated  0 
Yeah man, it's fucking incredible how the band had been able to go from straightfoward punk rock to all these diverse styles (reggae, rockabilly, dub, ska, ect.). Sonically, and the way the lyrics are constructed, this one embraces the hip-hop style and puts itself behind a funk beat to create a song that just can't be put into one catagory, which you commonly find in much of The Clash's later work.

Log in to reply
Bigs
10-28-2005

 Rated  0 
Gotta love that bass.

du du duddle duddle du

Log in to reply
sgt.peppper
12-21-2005

 Rated  0 
one CLASH's great handful of hiphop/dance songs. there's so many great lines, all delivered with sloppy perfection by strummer.

with an extraordinarily awesome bass line by paul simonon (though, his lines are ALWAYS awesome)

basically the song just recaps the life in a day of a working man. and as we all know, the clash look down on the 9-5 working life. "the magnifigance seven" is the "magnificint" 7 days in a week. this is of course irony.

CHEESEBOIGER!!

Log in to reply
Cherub Rock
03-30-2006

 Rated  +1 
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

Log in to reply
FreePablo
12-25-2006

 Rated  +1 
CHEESEBOIGA!

Log in to reply
Strummerite
02-27-2007

 Rated  0 
Sadly, Paul didn't do the bassline on this song, it was Norman Watt-Roy of the Blockheads. Paul was filming a movie in Vancouver for the first week of the Sandinista sessions, so you hear Norman on Mag 7 & Lightning Strikes, which happen to be the funkiest lines on the album.

Nevertheless, Paul is an awesome bassist.

Great song too.

Log in to reply
subvert
05-13-2007

 Rated  0 
First British rap song ever?

Log in to reply
FreePablo
05-14-2007

 Rated  0 
Yes, probably the first British rap song. This was definitely the first time a rock band had ever done rap(Bob Dylan was rapping on Subterranean Homesick Blues in my opinion but the song was still largely rock). And I don't know if there were any Brits rapping at the time since it was still largely at a New York thing during 1980. Newtrament and The Ruthless Rap Assassins didn't show up until a couple years later.

Log in to reply
cardcheat
09-25-2007

 Rated  0 
Alot of Sandanista was recorded in New York and the Clash integrated the music around them into their own stuff, so they picked up the rap vibe there. I read Johnny Green's book A Riot of Our Own and I think the origin of Mag 7 is in there. Apparently the Clash would dance to the opening acts music. As more guys joined in they came up with a name until there were 7 of them dancing and they called themselves the Magnificent 7.

Log in to reply
1 Reply  · 
chowfun18
11-27-2007

 Rated  0 
doesn't sound like rap now but compare it to Grandmaster Flash and it's the same (except with the voices of english whiteboys instead of black new yorkers).

Lyrics are about the drudgery of the white-collar worker and the absurdity of any individual buying into a system that treats him as nothing more than a commodity/instrument

Log in to reply
MissMorningGlory
04-04-2008

 Rated  0 
fucking long, innit?

Log in to reply
HartigusHatt
07-13-2008

 Rated  0 
this is about commercialism and about life as a working-class Joe. You work for a company who sells what you are producing and give you shit for money, so that you can go home and spend it on the very same things you've been producing all day. You get poor they get rich...

Log in to reply
HartigusHatt
07-13-2008

 Rated  0 
albanyankee put it pretty good, I think the line about "take my baby to sophistication" Is about his girl wanting the fancy things she sees in commercials and wants em ... "Gotta work hard, I've seen the price is from that point of view pretty self-explanatory.

Log in to reply
RettAlexis
10-12-2008

 Rated  0 
MAAAAaaaaaaagnificent!!!

Log in to reply
Steppingrazor
12-10-2008

 Rated  +1 
The Clash where WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME, this song is cleary an early rap/funk song

Log in to reply
General Comment
monster36604
01-13-2009

 Rated  +1 
One of their best...There's a reason they're legends. Great bass!

Log in to reply
General Comment
Genosse
09-26-2009

 Rated  +1 
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/

Log in to reply
1 Reply  ·  General Comment




  • Add Your Comments
What does this song mean to you?

You must be logged in to post your comments.

Feel free to create an account with us, or log in with your existing account, to start adding your comments to songs.







Your Ad Here