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Last Gang in Town

This version of Last Gang In Town was released by The Clash in 1978.

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Everybody’s looking for last gang in town
You better watch out for they’re all comin’ around

The sport of today is exciting
The in crowd are into infighting
When some punk sees some rock-olla
It’s rock and roll all over
In every street and every station
Kids fight like different nations
And it’s brawn against brain
And it’s knife against chain
But it’s all young blood
Flowing down the drain

The Crops hit the Stiffs
An’ the Spikes whipped the Quiffs
They’re all looking ’round

For the last gang in town

Meanwhile down in black town
Those old soul rebels are haingin’ around
An’ when some punk come alooking for sound
Rastaferi goes to ground
The white heart flipped his pocket dipped
‘Cos a black sharp knife never slips
And they never say to one antoher
That tomorrow we might kill our brothers

Down from the edge of London
The rockabily rebels came
From another edge of London
Skinhead gangs call out their name
But not the Zydeco kids
From the high rise
Though they can’t be recognized
When you hear a cajun fiddle
Then you’re nearly in the middle
Of the last gang in town

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The lyrics to Last Gang In Town are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Clash used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Last Gang In Town have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Clash and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Last Gang In Town by The Clash. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Last Gang In Town" means the words set to the music of Last Gang In Town, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Clash. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Last Gang In Town and the lyrics to Last Gang In Town are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Clash who came here looking just for the lyrics to Last Gang In Town, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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