Belsen Was a Gas (Ronnie Biggs Movie Version)
Sex Pistols
Track 11 on The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle
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Belsen Was a Gas (Ronnie Biggs Movie Version) Lyrics
[Verse]
Ok this time for real
Belsen Was A Gasser
Belsen was a gas I heard the other day
In the open graves where the Jews all lay
Life is fun and I wish you were here
They wrote on postcards to those held dear
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
Dentist search their teeth for gold
Frisk the Jews for bank notes rolled
When they found out what they got
Line them up and shoot the lot
Kill a man, be a man, kill a man
Wonder what the Jews would say
If I told them where Boorman was today
Would they start a vendetta
You'd better ask Ernie Ledbetter
Ledbetter, Ledbetter, Ledbetter
Ok this time for real
Belsen Was A Gasser
Belsen was a gas I heard the other day
In the open graves where the Jews all lay
Life is fun and I wish you were here
They wrote on postcards to those held dear
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
Dentist search their teeth for gold
Frisk the Jews for bank notes rolled
When they found out what they got
Line them up and shoot the lot
Kill a man, be a man, kill a man
Wonder what the Jews would say
If I told them where Boorman was today
Would they start a vendetta
You'd better ask Ernie Ledbetter
Ledbetter, Ledbetter, Ledbetter
About
Genius Annotation
The song is about Jewish concentration camps and the gas chambers within them, which the Nazis used to kill people during World War II.
It is one of the Sex Pistols‘ last and most controversial songs they’ve made.
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- 3.Roadrunner
- 4.Black Arabs
- 6.Substitute
- 11.Belsen Was a Gas (Ronnie Biggs Movie Version)
- 12.Silly Thing
- 13.My Way
- 14.I Wanna Be Me
- 15.Something Else
- 17.Lonely Boy
- 19.C’mon Everybody
- 20.EMI (Orchestral)
- 23.You Need Hands
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June 30, 0789
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