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Prairie full of lost souls running from the priests of iniquity
Where the hell was Elijah
What do you do when the prophecy game was through
We gotta take the walls of Jericho
Put your lips together and blow
To the very top
Say the truth crystallizes like jewels in the rock, in the rock
Get down Moses, part another sea
Carve another tablet out of L.S.D.
Get down Moses, out in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down in the street
The blood washing down all the gravel to our feet
Get down Moses, down in the pit
Lying in a dream, cross a battlefield
Crashing on a downtown strip
Looking in the eyes of the diamonds and the spies and the hip
Who's sponsoring the crack ghetto
Who's lecturing who's in the know and in the don't know
You better take the walls of Jericho
Put your lips together and blow
Goin' to the very top
Where the truth crystallizes like jewels, in the rock, in the rock
Get down Moses, from the eagle aerie
You gotta to make new friends out of old enemies
Get down Moses, back in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down with the dreads
They got a lotta reasoning in a dreadhead
Get down Moses, down in the street
Get down Moses
Get down Moses, part another sea
Carve another tablet out of L.S.D.
Get down Moses, out in Tennessee
Get down Moses, down in the street
The blood washing down all the gravel to our feet
Get down Moses, down in the pit
Get down Moses
Get down Moses
Get down Moses
We need to eat
We gotta chew it over with our wisdom teeth
Get down Moses
meh. Dopey song. PSD. Overplayed imo. I guess hating biblical stories and references plays into this.
But wait! I love the Cohen’s, “Hallelujah” and Taylor’s “You’ve Got a Friend,” and God’s “Tears in Heaven” and ….
….Damn it!
i don’t like THIS song.
Ok - tell is how you really feel?
But wait! I love the Cohen’s, “Hallelujah” and Taylor’s “You’ve Got a Friend,” and God’s “Tears in Heaven” and ….
….Damn it!
i don’t like THIS song.
I'm turning down the volume more often these days.
Conversely, I started paying attention to the production techniques and delicacies and I had to crank it up.
I assume the song's title is a play on the title of the Faulkner novel Go Down Moses.
The phrase predates Faulkner, who used the phrase from an Abolitionist song.
I'm turning down the volume more often these days.
c.
Although, he was reported to have said, when he finally got those pesky masses to the promised land,
"I am gonna get so FACED tonight! Who's with me?".
A fine walk out to Idrigill and the Maidens!
c.
How do you know? Did he tell you?
We know he has an unfortunate association with Cadillac. Also, "Lost in the Supermarket" and especially "Koka Kola" speak to the Clash's feeling about commercialism.
But where is it?
This is now being used to sell Cadillacs. Joe would not be happy if he knew his music was being used to sell a material product to the bourgeoisie.
How do you know? Did he tell you?
A lot of artists, far more influential even than Mr. Strummer, died penniless. Unappreciated until after their deaths.
Not to mention, the music business has not traditionally been kind to artists, business acumen or no.
But yeah, I see your point.
c.
Thanks, Bill!
This only matters to people listening this decade, but the last 13 years have been killer on RP.
I first logged in with my DX66 on a 28.8 modem...
Thank you for sharing your ignorance
This only matters to people listening this decade, but the last 13 years have been killer on RP.
Very cool: Update from Rebel's Wood.
Somehow I got drawn into reading this 1990 NYT piece within the last five years:
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/world/believers-score-in-battle-over-the-battle-of-jericho.html
Published: February 22, 1990
After years of doubt among archeologists, a new analysis of excavations has yielded a wide range of evidence supporting the biblical account about the fall of Jericho. It may well be true that, in the words of the old spiritual, ''Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, and the walls come tumbling down.''
Cognitive dissonance / confirmation bias
Please post your evidence and conclusions for:
- the age of the earth ) (ROTFL)
- Noah's flood (LMAOF)
Rube!
Thank you for sharing your ignorance
I listened to it on Utub and yep, a very good record
I'll have to agree
doesn't get much better than this
Parenting, yer doin' it right...
Way to save civilization!'
Boy I wish I could give this a 15!
Parenting, yer doin' it right...
Cool. Thanks.
I'll lay good odds that Pandora (which I've never tried) doesn't have a PSD equivalent, so it's your loss. Perhaps it's best for you just to hit mute whilst this song is on and rejoin after 5 minutes.
When I tried Pandora, I gave it perfectly good songs and it fed me back a steady diet of tripe and pablum. I'll take RP any day of the week.
Parenting, yer doin' it right...
I'll lay good odds that Pandora (which I've never tried) doesn't have a PSD equivalent, so it's your loss. Perhaps it's best for you just to hit mute whilst this song is on and rejoin after 5 minutes.
Fiction is a powerful tool. I'm glad it brings you peace and I wish it always will.
Nice backhanded compliment. I wish you peace in your delusions as well.
Somehow I got drawn into reading this 1990 NYT piece within the last five years:
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/world/believers-score-in-battle-over-the-battle-of-jericho.html
Published: February 22, 1990
After years of doubt among archeologists, a new analysis of excavations has yielded a wide range of evidence supporting the biblical account about the fall of Jericho. It may well be true that, in the words of the old spiritual, ''Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, and the walls come tumbling down.''
A study of ceramic remnants, royal scarabs, carbon-14 dating, seismic activity in the region and even some ruins of tumbled walls produced what is being called impressive evidence that the fortified city was destroyed in the Late Bronze Age, about 1400 B.C...
Fiction is a powerful tool. I'm glad it brings you peace and I wish it always will.
Hope the door didn't hit you ....
Put your lips together and blow"
If we had the faith of a mustard seed
--->
After the seventh trip around the city on the seventh day, Scripture tells us that the wall “fell flat” (Jos 6:20). A more accurate rendering of the Hebrew word here would be “fell beneath itself.” Is there evidence for such an event at Jericho? It turns out that there is ample evidence that the mudbrick city wall collapsed and was deposited at the base of the stone retaining wall at the time the city met its end.
After the city walls fell, how could the Israelites surmount the 12–15 foot high retaining wall at the base of the tell? Excavations have shown that the bricks from the collapsed walls fell in such a way as to form a ramp against the retaining wall. The Israelites could merely climb up over the pile of rubble, up the embankment, and enter the city. The Bible is very precise in its description of how the Israelites entered the city: “The people went up into the city, every man straight before him” (Jos 6:20, KJV). The Israelites had to go up, and that is what archaeology has revealed. They had to go from ground level at the base of the tell to the top of the rampart in order to enter the city.
But one section remained standing --->
According to the Bible, Rahab’s house was incorporated into the fortification system (Jos 2:15). If the walls fell, how was her house spared? As you recall, the spies had instructed Rahab to bring her family into her house and they would be rescued. When the Israelites stormed the city, Rahab and her family were saved as promised (Jos 6:17, 22–23). At the north end of the tell of Jericho, archaeologists made some astounding discoveries that seem to relate to Rahab.
The German excavation of 1907-1909 found that on the north a short stretch of the lower city wall did not fall as everywhere else. A portion of that mudbrick wall was still standing to a height of 8 ft (Sellin and Watzinger 1973: 58). What is more, there were houses built against the wall! It is quite possible that this is where Rahab’s house was located. Since the city wall formed the back wall of the houses, the spies could have readily escaped. From this location on the north side of the city, it was only a short distance to the hills of the Judean wilderness where the spies hid for three days (Jos 2:16, 22).
Somehow I got drawn into reading this 1990 NYT piece within the last five years:
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/world/believers-score-in-battle-over-the-battle-of-jericho.html
Published: February 22, 1990
After years of doubt among archeologists, a new analysis of excavations has yielded a wide range of evidence supporting the biblical account about the fall of Jericho. It may well be true that, in the words of the old spiritual, ''Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, and the walls come tumbling down.''
A study of ceramic remnants, royal scarabs, carbon-14 dating, seismic activity in the region and even some ruins of tumbled walls produced what is being called impressive evidence that the fortified city was destroyed in the Late Bronze Age, about 1400 B.C...
Miss you so much, Cynaera...
everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the holy moly world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners and B.F. Skinner... we love this splendiferous song... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
Put your lips together and blow"
If we had the faith of a mustard seed
--->
After the seventh trip around the city on the seventh day, Scripture tells us that the wall “fell flat” (Jos 6:20). A more accurate rendering of the Hebrew word here would be “fell beneath itself.” Is there evidence for such an event at Jericho? It turns out that there is ample evidence that the mudbrick city wall collapsed and was deposited at the base of the stone retaining wall at the time the city met its end.
After the city walls fell, how could the Israelites surmount the 12–15 foot high retaining wall at the base of the tell? Excavations have shown that the bricks from the collapsed walls fell in such a way as to form a ramp against the retaining wall. The Israelites could merely climb up over the pile of rubble, up the embankment, and enter the city. The Bible is very precise in its description of how the Israelites entered the city: “The people went up into the city, every man straight before him” (Jos 6:20, KJV). The Israelites had to go up, and that is what archaeology has revealed. They had to go from ground level at the base of the tell to the top of the rampart in order to enter the city.
But one section remained standing --->
According to the Bible, Rahab’s house was incorporated into the fortification system (Jos 2:15). If the walls fell, how was her house spared? As you recall, the spies had instructed Rahab to bring her family into her house and they would be rescued. When the Israelites stormed the city, Rahab and her family were saved as promised (Jos 6:17, 22–23). At the north end of the tell of Jericho, archaeologists made some astounding discoveries that seem to relate to Rahab.
The German excavation of 1907-1909 found that on the north a short stretch of the lower city wall did not fall as everywhere else. A portion of that mudbrick wall was still standing to a height of 8 ft (Sellin and Watzinger 1973: 58). What is more, there were houses built against the wall! It is quite possible that this is where Rahab’s house was located. Since the city wall formed the back wall of the houses, the spies could have readily escaped. From this location on the north side of the city, it was only a short distance to the hills of the Judean wilderness where the spies hid for three days (Jos 2:16, 22).
Everybody in my church loves this song...
Awesome!
Good grief, speak English man. . . person. . . bot. . . or whatever you are.
Hear Hear..... the Campaign for Real English begins here
Good grief, speak English man. . . person. . . bot. . . or whatever you are.
cant evn listn 2it
rocking good!
Get Down & get up & shake your wild thing.
I just get so much more work done listening to Joe.
This qualifies as one of the most hilarious comments ever on this board.
Oh... its sirroseph, now I understand.
Good song always! Joe left us too soon!
And to the guy below me talking about new sounds, you know the song's like 9 years old, right?