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Joe Strummer – Ramshackle Day Parade lyrics
Muffle the drums
The hope of a new century comes
Was it all the amphetamine presidents
And their busy wives
Or did Manhattan crumble
The day Marlyn died

All your life, dreamer of dreams
Somehow connected with the silver screen
Half closed eyes, you realize
Loving the life that is paradise
And the Technicolor
I dream a parade like some club house
Club house serenade
Every dog must have his day

Ramshackle Day Parade
We're going on though

This is the ramshackle day parade
Of all those lost, unborn, and unmade
And who's heads got filled with a neon lava
And remain buried underneath this road
Ramshackle Day Parade

Taken' the freight elevator
And the incinerator
To the hopped up G-men riding
Refrigerated alligators
Faces of the civil wars, and holograms holding 44's
After the deranged cowboys
Bring out the banners of Stalingrad
Here come the marching band
The band of the underhand

This is the ramshackle day parade
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    Unregistered 2025-10-04 19:54:06
    To my reading listening this is a song about the USA in the early sixties. The first stanza makes me think of JFK on amphetamins. Then there is the mention of Marilyn Monroe. One of jfk’s alleged lovers.
    The mention of hopped up Gmen and their cats are “refrigerated alligators” maybe.
    Then there is the allusion to civil wars which were a major part of the 60’s
    I don’t get the mention of Stalingrad though
    Essentially I think it’s a reference to the 60’s in the US and the downtrodden poor civil uprising.
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    [Intro][Verse][Pre-Chorus][Chorus][Hook][Bridge][Outro]