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The Menzingers – Straight to Hell (2007) | Track profile | Dork

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A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology
Straight to Hell

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Straight to Hell

Release date: 8th July 2007

From A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology

Track 9

4:36

Alternative Music Punk

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About This Track

"Straight to Hell" is a track by The Menzingers, from the album A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology, released 8th July 2007. The track is 4:36 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about The Menzingers.

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Lyrics

Straight to Hell

[Originally by The Clash]

If you can play on the fiddle
How's about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King's English in quotation
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise

There ain't no need for ya
Go straight to hell boys

Y'wanna join in a chorus
Of the Amerasian blues?
When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh City
Kiddie say papa papa papa papa-san take me home
See me got photo photo
Photograph of you
Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Of you and Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola it's rice.

Straight to hell
Oh Papa-san
Please take me home
Oh Papa-san
Everybody they wanna go home
So Mamma-san says

You wanna play mind-crazed banjo
On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
In Parkland International
Hah! Junkiedom U.S.A.
Where procaine proves the purest rock man groove
And rat poison
The volatile Molatov says-

PSSST...
HEY CHICO WE GOT A MESSAGE FOR YA...
VAMOS VAMOS MUCHACHO
FROM ALPHABET CITY ALL THE WAY A TO Z, DEAD, HEAD

Go straight to hell

Can you really cough it up loud and strong
The immigrants
They wanna sing all night long
It could be anywhere
Most likely could be any frontier
Any hemisphere
No man's land and there ain't no asylum here
King Solomon he never lived round here

Go straight to hell boys

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Track details

From A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology

4:362007

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Album

A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology

Track number

9

Release year

2007

1Alpha Kaa Fall Off a Balcony
2:15
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3:23
3A Lesson In the Abuse of Information Technology
2:36
4

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Ave Maria

2:56

5Coal City Blues

7Even for an Eggshell

9Straight to Hell

4:36

11Cold Weather Gear

12Clap Hands Two Guns

—Alpha Kappa Fall Off a Balcony

—Richard Coury

Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon
Writer: The Clash
Producer: Jesse Cannon