The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too - The Clash

The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too from The Clash´s Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg.
RPFFB (as I have decided it should be abbreviated as) was, or is, what was originally planned to be the album that evolved into Combat Rock, and features along the Combat Rock songs a number of unreleased ones, such as this one.
The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too is also commmonly known as The Fullham Connection, and according The Clash Wiki and some people I´ve spoken too (on the internet) Mick Jones has confirmed that to be its correct name, but I´ve yet to see the proof and the Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg 'release' titles it...well, The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too. So that´s what I call it.

Anyho. This is a pretty damn beautiful song if you ask me, with some pretty damn beautiful lyrics too, though to be perfectly honest I can understand why it didn´t make it to the final Combat Rock release.

Lyrics:

"I see the law caught your hands on the stuff
And if that wasn't enough
Means I totally fell for your bluff
Oh how you kicked off that stuff


Oh the beautiful people are ugly too!
There's gonna be a lot of washin' when the dance is through


Now you're face, without pretence
Is lit up on the fence


You, you, you, you!
You can buy another singer like you gotta lotta money!
You, you, you, you!
You can buy another singer like you gotta lotta money!


All those who feign indifference
Whether to be, or become past tense
The forgotten part of old acquaintance
Who stiffed out on the Itchykoo park bench


Admit it!
You thought you were the hero
Of the Fulham Connection 2
Yeah the flashing strip
You flashed your jewels
But now the credits
It must roll through


You, you, you, you!
You can buy another singer like you gotta lotta money!
You, you, you, you!
You can buy another singer like you gotta lotta money!


A fatal mistake - they lived a year in a week
And ready to be great if you gotta receipt


You, you, you, you!
You can buy another singer like you gotta lotta money!
You, you, you, you!
You can buy another singer like you gotta lotta money!


Can't get a lotta swing along a letter to jail
The beautiful people are ugly too!
There's gonna be a lot of washin' when the dance is through
Now the beautiful people are ugly too!"

RIP Joe

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[wildrabbitmusic]

Just shows how genius these guys were.... very creative arrangements... wicked. We should have had so much more from the clash. Can't get over that.

[coolconfuzer]

love it should have been on super black market....

[Salemstreet3]

@skwuballo calm down

[RaptureandZune]

I would like to dedicate this song to the elitists on BeautifulPeople . com.

[CharlieDeluchiCuzz]

I was born 10 years too late :(

[skwuballo]

@Ui2019 Yeah well who the fuck are you to give 'The Only Band That Matters" advice anyway?

[thehudsonaffair]

ace

[JohanStroke]

Cumbia!!!!! siempre experimentando estos maestros!

[alastairjr40]

Famous people ugly, normal people aren't.

[Ui2019]

i would've replaced the keyboard with another guitar and that's it.

[seerauberjohnny]

@callwithcurrentconti I always understood that it got 'lopped' because it was about Topper and his 'little problem' and therefore hitting a little too close to home.

[callwithcurrentconti]

@ZLUGGO Top Risk Action Company - Mick's project after leaving and before BAD, it had some shared personnel like Don Letts. Features the same amount of layering here with little electronic bits interspersed, and brass. Early demos are the only evidence we have...