Intro: Dm7 Am7 G7
Em7 F+7 Em7 Am7/C
Am7 Em7
Now, the king told the boogie men,
G Dm7
you have to let that raga drop
Am7 Em7
The oil down the desert way
G Dm7
has been shaken to the top
Am7 Em7
The sheik he drove his cadillac
G Dm7
he went a cruisin’ down the ville
Am7 Em7
The Muezzin was a standing
F
On the radiator grille
Chorus:
Dm7 Am7 G
Shareef don’t like it
Em7 Fmaj7 Em7 Am/C
Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah
Dm7 Am7 G
Shareef don’t like it
Em7 Fmaj7 Em7 Am/C
Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah
Verse:
Am7 Em7
By order of the prophet
G Dm7
We ban that boogie sound
Am7 Em7
Degenerate the faithful
G Dm7
With that crazy Casbah sound
Am7 Em7
But the Bedouin, they brought out the electric camel drum
G Dm7
The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb
Am7 Em7
As soon as the Shareef had cleared the square
F
They began to wail
Chorus
Am7
Now over at the temple
Oh, they really pack’em in
The in crowd say it’s cool
To dig this chanting thing
F
But as the wind changed direction
G
and the temple band took five
Am7
The crowd got a whiff
Of that crazy casbah jive
Chorus
The king called up his jet fighters
He said, you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way
As soon as the Shareef was chauffered out of there
The jet pilote tuned to the cockpit radio blare
As soon as the Shareef was outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
Chorus 2x
He thinks it’s not kosher
Fundamentally he can’t take it
You know he really hates it
Em7 F+7 Em7 Am7/C
Am7 Em7
Now, the king told the boogie men,
G Dm7
you have to let that raga drop
Am7 Em7
The oil down the desert way
G Dm7
has been shaken to the top
Am7 Em7
The sheik he drove his cadillac
G Dm7
he went a cruisin’ down the ville
Am7 Em7
The Muezzin was a standing
F
On the radiator grille
Chorus:
Dm7 Am7 G
Shareef don’t like it
Em7 Fmaj7 Em7 Am/C
Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah
Dm7 Am7 G
Shareef don’t like it
Em7 Fmaj7 Em7 Am/C
Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah
Verse:
Am7 Em7
By order of the prophet
G Dm7
We ban that boogie sound
Am7 Em7
Degenerate the faithful
G Dm7
With that crazy Casbah sound
Am7 Em7
But the Bedouin, they brought out the electric camel drum
G Dm7
The local guitar picker got his guitar picking thumb
Am7 Em7
As soon as the Shareef had cleared the square
F
They began to wail
Chorus
Am7
Now over at the temple
Oh, they really pack’em in
The in crowd say it’s cool
To dig this chanting thing
F
But as the wind changed direction
G
and the temple band took five
Am7
The crowd got a whiff
Of that crazy casbah jive
Chorus
The king called up his jet fighters
He said, you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way
As soon as the Shareef was chauffered out of there
The jet pilote tuned to the cockpit radio blare
As soon as the Shareef was outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
Chorus 2x
He thinks it’s not kosher
Fundamentally he can’t take it
You know he really hates it
