Its A Rockin World


JOE STRUMMER – IT’S A ROCKIN’ WORLD It's not a very well known Strummer song, but I really like it. It is not a Mescaleros song as it seems to get said a lot. The guys in this once off collaboration actually include Flea and Tom Morello. I'm sure no-one cares but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway. The future is unwritten. A F# D E Well it's a rockin' world, make no mistake about A F# D E It's a shockin' world, could be what's so great about it A F# D E A It's a rockin' world, there ain't nothing fake about it A F# D E Whoa whoa, now welcome to this Earth bro A F# D E Whoa whoa, we're tryin' to find an answer A F# D E A E Whoa whoa, we got a surface module and a belly-dancer D G D G On a sidewalk surf, a boy is tryin' to show a girl what he is worth D G A Both arms in plaster, but he's still gonna D E Go right up and ask her A F# D E Why is love magnetic is it, biological? A F# D E Why is it frenetic is it astrophysological? A F# D E It's an epidemic, there's nothing logically A E Logical, logical, logical A F# D E Well it's a rockin' world, make no mistake about A F# D E It's a shockin' world, could be what's so great about it A F# D E A It's a rockin' world, there ain't nothing fake about it DGDG DGAD A F# D E Now why do babies cry? I asked the crow today A F# D E but all he did was fly And he took the cynic way A F# D E A The laws of chaos, left us all in disarray A F# D E Now take the bumblebee, a lousy rotten bum A F# D E Not a shred of money just a lazy buzzin' hum A F# D E A He takes all our honey and it's the Garden of Eden that's got to pay E that's who... D G Earth probe, back to base D G Can't make no head or no tail of this place D G A D E Earth probe we're returning back to base, ase A F# D E Can we be notified when, love comes of age A F# D E Does a cell divide in the - in the initial phase A F# D E A It's all codified in the - DNA stage A F# D E Well it's a rockin' world, make no mistake about A F# D E It's a shockin' world, could be what's so great about it A F# D E A It's a rockin' world, there ain't nothing fake about it Finish with a couple of stabs on the A