Ivan Meets G.I. Joe

Album: Sandinista! (1980)
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  • Anything we should know about your change?
    So you're on the floor at fifty-four
    Think you can last at the Palace
    Does your body go to the to and fro?
    But tonight's the night or didn't you know
    That Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe

    He tried his tricks that Ruskie bear
    The United Nations said it's all fair
    He did the radiation he did the chemical plague
    But he could not win with a cossack spin

    The Vostok Bomb the Stalin strike
    He tried every move he tried to hitch hike
    He drilled a hole like a Russian star
    He made every move in his repertoire

    When Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe

    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe

    Now it was G.I. Joe's turn to blow
    He turned it on cool and slow
    He tried a payphone call to the Pentagon
    A radar scan a leviathan

    He wiped the Earth clean as a plate
    What does it take to make a Ruskie break?
    But the crowd are bored and off they go
    Over the road to watch China blow

    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe
    Ivan meets G.I. Joe Writer/s: JOE STRUMMER, MICK JONES, TOPPER HEADON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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