Death Or Glory"

Lyrics: Strummer, Jones
Music: Strummer, Jones

A Clash song played acoustic by Jesse Malin with Bob Weir at TRI studio in 2012. See below for extracts from an interview with Jesse Malin where he explains the background. Very many thanks to Pete Millerman for alerting me to this. Malin sings so9me different lyrics from the recorded Clash version.

Every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world
Ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl
With, "Love and hate" tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
Hands that slap his kids around 'cause they don't understand how

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory, just another story

Every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mike to tell me he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory, bye bye bye, we'll see him in the morning

See him in the gun sights, he wanna say hello
Nobody's speaking, waiting up for Joe
Nobody's playing death or glory now
Playing false game [?]

In every dingy basement, on every dingy street
Every draggin' handclap or every draggin' beat
It's just the beat of time, the beat that must go on
If you've been tryin' for years, we already heard your song

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory, bye bye bye, we'll see him in the morning

Standing on the corner, [?] will never warn you
There's all the contradictions, all the science fictions
All the law makers and the undertakers
All the heart breakers and the damage takers

Death or glory, bye bye bye, it's just another story
Death of glory, my my my, just, just, another story

Many years later I did a song with Bob Weir. I did "Brown-Eyed Women" with him at his studio. We did this duet and then we did a Clash song because I knew that Bob and Joe Strummer had gotten together one day when they were both in Philly. ... He was very sweet, very down to earth. He wanted to get it right, so we did several takes. ... I said, "That's my favorite Dead song. It's got a rock and roll-y thing." Then after that I was like, "How about we do a Clash thing?" So we did "Death or Glory."