Lyrics The Clash – Ivan Meets G.I. Joe

So you’re on the floor, at 54
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

He tried his tricks- that Ruskie bear
The United Nations said it’s all fair
He did the radiation — 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 meet 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!

When Ivan meets G.I. Joe