Rock the Casbah

(Vocabulário no final)

Rock the Casbah

(The CIash)

Now the king told the boogie men

You have to let that raga drop

The oil down the desert way

Has been shaken to the top

The sheik he drove his Cadillac

He went a-cruisin' down the ville

The muezzin was a-standing

On the radiator grille

CHORUS

The shariff don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah

Rock the Casbah

The shariff don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah

Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet

We ban that boogie sound

Degenerate the faithful

With that crazy Casbah sound

But the Bedouin they brought out

The electric camel drum

The local guitar picker

Got his guitar picking thumb

As soon as the shariff

Had cleared the square

They began to wail

CHORUS

Now over at the temple

Oh! They really pack 'em in

The in crowd say it's cool

To dig this chanting thing

But as the wind changed direction

The tempIe band took five

The crowd caught 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 shariff was

Chauffeured outta there

The jet pilots tuned to

The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shariff was

outta their hair

The jet pilots wailed

CHORUS

He thinks it's not kosher

Fundamentally he can't take it

You know he really hates it

^{cas[bah 7k9z4b9#, kaz$38

n.

5Fr < Ar dial. qaRba, for qaRaba, fortress6

1 in N Africa, a fortress

the old, crowded quarter of a N African city [C3] the crowded quarter of Algiers (PORTUGUÊS: Casbá)

-boogeyman (plural -men) noun [C]
a bogey
bogey boogeyman noun
something feared, esp. when the fear is not based on reason

Too many economists are scared by the bogey of inflation, he says.
ra[ga 7r94g!8

n.

5Sans raga, lit., color, akin to rajayati, (he) dyes < IE base *reg3, to color > Gr rhegma, dyed material6 any of a large number of traditional melody patterns with characteristic intervals, rhythms, and embellishments, used by Hindu musicians as source material for improvisation

mu[ez[zin 7my1 ez4in8

n.

5Ar mu‘adhdhin, prp. of adhdhana, freq. of adhana, to proclaim udhn, an ear6 in Muslim countries, a crier, as in a minaret, who calls the people to prayer five times a day (PORTUGUÊS: muezim, almuadem)

pick[er1 7pik4!r8

n.

a person or thing that picks; esp., a machine for picking fibers

pick[er2 7pik4!r8

n.

5PICK1 + 3ER6 a device that throws the shuttle through the warp in weaving

wail 7wal8

vi.

5ME wailen < ON v+la, to lament < v+, WOE6

1 to express grief or pain by long, loud cries

2 to make a plaintive, sad, crying sound !the wind wailing in the trees"

3 [Slang] Jazz to play in an intense or inspired manner

vt.

[Archaic]

1 to lament; mourn !to wail someone‘s death"

2 to cry out in mourning or lamentation

n.

1 a long, pitiful cry of grief and pain

2 a sound like this

3 the act of wailing

—SYN CRY

wail$er

n.

min[a[ret 7min#! ret$, min4! ret#8

n.

5Fr Turk menaret Ar manara(t), lighthouse, minaret base of nar, fire6 a high, slender tower attached to a mosque, with one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin, or crier, calls the people to prayer.

PORTUGUÊS: minarete, almádena.

whiff /hwIf,wIf/ noun [C]
a smell that you notice briefly
I got a whiff of perfume as she walked by.
(figurative) A whiff of scandal was in the air.
>jive1 7jjv8

vt., vi.

jived, jiv4ing 5altered < JIBE2: sense development, to tauntabanteraimproviseaswing (music)6 [Slang] to speak (to) in a way that is exaggerated, insincere, flippant, etc., esp. in trying to fool or mislead

n.

1 [Slang] talk used in jiving someone

2 old term for JAZZ or SWING (c. 1930-45)

adj.

[Slang] insincere, misleading, fake, fraudulent, etc.: also jive4ass# 73as#8

blare 7bler8

vt., vi.

blared, blar4ing 5ME bleren, bloren, to wail, bellow: for IE base see BLEAR6

1 to sound out with loud, harsh, trumpetlike tones

2 to announce or exclaim loudly

n.

1 a loud, brassy sound

ko[sher 7kb4*!r; for v., usually k9*4!r8

adj.

5Yidd Heb kashcr, fit, proper root kCr, to be appropriate6

1 Judaism

a) clean or fit to eat according to the dietary laws: Lev. 11 b) serving or dealing with such food !a kosher kitchen"

2 loosely, prepared according to traditional Jewish recipes !kosher pickles"

>3 [Slang] all right, proper, correct, etc.

n.

kosher food

vt.

to make kosher

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