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Holiday In Cambodia (Dead Kennedys cover, 1996)

from Frust​-​Rated XXX (1999) by Nation's Slum

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In '95 I send a letter to Jello Biafra and I told him that I'd like to cover some Dead Kennedys song. One month later I received a package with one tape, a Best of Dead Kennedys ("Give Me Convenience OR Give Me Death"), the lyrics and a handwritten letter from Biafra. He agree, so we made this one. It's a dark, heavy cut with an evil guitar riff in it.

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So you been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear:

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

You're a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you

Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son:.

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot!

And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul

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from Frust​-​Rated XXX (1999), released September 2, 1999
Used by Permission of Jello Biafra and Alternative Tentacles Records.
Songwriters: Slesinger Bruce, Biafra Jello, Ray East Bay and Flouride Klaus.
Re-arranged by Attila Brushvox & Mari Antohi.
Recorded by:
Attila Brushvox - vocals
Mari Antohy - guitars, bass and vocals
Sandy Deac - keyboards & programming.
Sound Engineers: Sandy Deac, Ovidiu Buhatel & Attila Brushvox.
Produced by Attila Brushvox.

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I ended up at the microphone of a garage punk-rock band back in 1988 by mistake and fortune, and ever since, I've been "doing" music one way or another with different bands, projects or on my own. I played piano, bass, and some drums and learned to work with computers, samplers, and midi controllers.
I use Propellerhead's Reason, an Alesis keyboard, an Oxygen 8 midi-controller and the Reaper. ... more

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