First Night Back in London

Album: Super Black Market Clash (1982)
Charted: 43
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  • The mini cab
    The driver is black
    This time of night
    You better sit in the back

    Got a few smokes
    Under your hat
    The cops are lookin' out
    For the petrol on the black

    This time I think
    So what the hell
    There's that female
    I know too well

    Why should I lean
    Get out my mind again
    I ridin' in the back alone
    The stranger rides again

    To see my lovely town
    That always brings you down
    Where every drifter drifts
    For many miles around

    We take a casual drive
    For two miles up the road
    The cops pull us over
    And search right through our clothes

    They give him hell
    They check him on the air
    I sit there with the drugs in my hair

    As soon as I get home
    I call Heathrow
    Want a standby fare to Borneo Writer/s: JOE STRUMMER, MICK JONES, PAUL SIMONON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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