Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1982
"Rock the cash bar."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Rock the cash bar."
What's actually sung
"Rock the Casbah." Rock the Casbah — The Clash (1982)
Why the ear defaults
"Casbah" (Arabic for citadel) is opaque to Western ears; "cash bar" is a wedding-reception fixture that sounds virtually identical in Joe Strummer's clipped delivery.
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