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Rudie Can't Fail Lyrics

Artist: The Clash
Album: Clash On Broadway

(Strummer/Jones)

Sing, Michael, sing-on the route of the 19 Bus
Hear them sayin'
How you get a rude and a reckless?
Don't you be so crude and a feckless
You been drinking brew for breakfast
Rudie can't fail

So we reply
I know that my life make you nervous
But I tell you that I can't live in service
Like the doctor who was born for a purpose***
Rudie can't fail

I WENT TO THE MARKET TO REALISE MY SOUL
'CAUSE WHAT I NEED I JUST DON'T HAVE
FIRST THEY CURSE, THEN THEY PRESS ME TILL I HURT
WE SAY RUDIE CAN'T FAIL

We hear them sayin'
Now first you must cure your temper
Then you find a job in the paper
You need someone for a saviour
Oh, Rudie can't fail

We reply
Now we get a rude and a reckless
We been seen lookin' cool an' a speckless
We been drinking brew for breakfast
So Rudie can't fail

Okay!
So where you wanna go today?
Hey boss man!
You're looking pretty smart
In your chicken skin suit

You think you're pretty hot
In your pork pie hat
But...Rudie can't fail
Look out, look out...
Sky juice!...10 cents a bottle!

*DOCTOR ALIMANTADO

Comments/Interpretations

by agata on 6/27/2008 6:12pm
love them..its been 4 or 5 years since i ve listen to the first song of them(london calling) and their songs supreiseing me steel till today..i cant say that any band in the world had done so much good music as Clash..
im crying cuz i was born too late..i would give a year of my live only to be on their concert...

by agata on 6/27/2008 6:20pm
ove them..its been 4 or 5 years since i ve listen to the first song of them(london calling) and their songs supreiseing me steel till today..i cant say that any band in the world had done so much good music as Clash..
im crying cuz i was born too late..i would give a year of my live only to be on their concert...

by Rei on 7/24/2008 8:40am
RUDY CANT FAIL!!!!!!!
This song ROCKS! I was brought up on the clash, and consequently love them! :D

by Luca on 8/10/2008 7:26pm
ninguna banda punk lleg� tan lejos como ellos. This is radio clash !!!!

by dee on 8/25/2008 9:51pm
punk rock never dies !!!!!! the clash is the best band i've heard

by Sjogren on 11/24/2008 1:56am
Rudie will never fail!

Clash city rockers!

by Cee on 1/29/2009 2:14pm
There IS a reason they are "The Only Band That Matters".

by Troy on 9/9/2009 8:21am
One of the greatest bands of all time. It is sad they are not still together making kick ass music!!! "Damn the man for keeping them down".

by asdasd on 12/1/2009 5:18pm
con este tema me preparo para ir a la cancha,con la cerveza y mis botas,todo esta bien :)

by Chazz on 5/24/2010 2:07am
R.I.P Joe Strummer

by Magnus on 12/11/2010 1:28pm
I was lucky enough to se them live in Stockholm Sweden and they made me love the music. go to Strummerville.com in the memory of John Mellow Alias Joe Strummer.
And Also check out the Mescaleros and the Pouges where Joe did his fair part for a nr of years, and Mick Jones and Terry chimes and all the others that made clash what it was simoly Fantastic.

by Carlos on 5/12/2012 1:02pm
Amazing band, though I discover them lately. Appreciate them better when I discover their musical experimentation. In Argentina they have influenced bands like Los Fabulosos Cadillacs