Lyrics:

A Cold War satire which reimagines the conflict between the USA and Soviet Union as a dance competition.
This song is the only Clash track on which drummer Topper Headon took lead vocals.So you're on the floor, at 54
Think you can last at Le Palace?
Does your body go to the to and fro?
Tonight's the night or didn't you know
That Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe
He tried his tricks that Ruskie bear
The United Nations said 'It's all fair'
He did the radiation, he did the chemical plague
He could not win with a Cossack spin
The Vostok Bomb, the Stalin strike
He tried every move, he tried to hitchhike
He drilled a hole like a Russian star
He made every move in his repertoire
When Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe

It's G.I. Joe's turn to blow
He turned it on cool and slow
He tried a pay phone call to the Pentagon
A radar scan, a leviathan
He wiped the Earth clean as a plate
What does it take to make a Ruskie break?
But the crowd are bored and off they go
Over the road to watch China blow!
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe (Ivan meets G.I. Joe)
Ivan meets G.I. Joe