Junkie Slip by The Clash
Junkie Slip by The Clash

Junkie Slip

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Junkie Slip by The Clash

Release Date
Fri Dec 12 1980
Performed by
The Clash
Produced by
Mikey Dread & The Clash
Writed by
Topper Headon & Mick Jones & Paul Simonon & Joe Strummer
About

The song likely is referencing the heroin addiction of Topper Headon, who joined in the The Clash in the late 1970’s and by 1982 the addiction had spiraled out of control and as a result was asked to leave the band by Joe Strummer.

The duo – 1977

Since that time, Topper and Strummer have made peac...

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Junkie Slip Lyrics

I wasn't going that far
The junkie slip!
I said I wasn't doing it
The junkie slip!
Yea thought I'd find a rhythm in the junkie town
Thought I'd find a rhythm when the junkies hang around
Thought I'd go out walking to the junkie kind of beat
Setting on those bars that the junkies meet
The junkie slip!
Nail it down
The junkie slip!
This side of town
The junkie slip!
And what you knowing before you's a doing
The things they's a-knowing
You pawn your coat and your car
Pawned your cigar and your old guitar
You pawned your guitar and your saxophone
You're pawning everything in your mother's home
Because it's a junkie slip!
Just like rock and roll
A junkie slip!
Like Johnny did the stroll
And you know it feels alright
But what's that feeling on a Saturday night?
You're itching itching itching in your pillow in the day
You're itching itching itching and you gave your coat away
Itching itching itching and then in your sleeping bag
There's a little packet that you thought you never had
It's a junkie slip!
Every night
Junkie slip!
Cold water fright
It's a junkie slip
And an old spoon cooky cooky cooky kooky afternoon
All afternoon and in the middle of the night
You're worse for the difference and it don't sleep tight
Don't pull the curtains don't put on the light
C-c-c-cos it's a junkie slip!
What's going on?
Was early night
I lit the fire
Finish alright
Yeh Edi-Edi-Edi-Yeh Edi-Juan
Him going to live with Indian
Come in the car, it's an old machine
Riding from Brookway on a magazine
Be on that corner with a magazine
Do ya do ya do ya follow your friends?
Do I hear you saying that you're going back again?
It's a junkie slip!
Where? Did it end?
But did it ah did it did it ever end?
When did it ever end?
Don't ask me when on a Wednesday night
Don't ask me when on a Thursday night
I said oh? Who the hell are you?
You said oh! Well you met me
I think I, I can guess why

Junkie Slip Q&A

Who wrote Junkie Slip's ?

Junkie Slip was written by Topper Headon & Mick Jones & Paul Simonon & Joe Strummer.

Who produced Junkie Slip's ?

Junkie Slip was produced by Mikey Dread & The Clash.

When did The Clash release Junkie Slip?

The Clash released Junkie Slip on Fri Dec 12 1980.

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