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"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
A thousand people on the sleet.
A thousand people on the street.
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
Everybody look at what's going down
Everybody look what's going down
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
Everybody, look, it's going down!
Everybody look what's going down
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
Everybody, snow is coming down
Everybody look what's going down
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
Fear of lawyers strikes deep
Paranoia strikes deep
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
Fowls, and people in the street.
A thousand people on the street.
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
I think it's time we stop and say, "What's that sound?"
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound?
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
I think it's time we stop it, what's that sound?
Everybody knows what's gonna drown
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody knows what's going down
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
I think it's time we stop, Josie, what's that sound?
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound?
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
I think it's time we stop, say "What's that sound?"
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound?
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
Singing songs that they carry inside
Mostly saying to wait for our time
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
Stop, Joseph, what's that sound?
Stop, children, what's that sound?
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
There a lawyer strikes to beat
A thousand people in the street.
What a field day for the heat
A thousand people in the street.
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
There are lawyers tracks deep.
Paranoia strikes deep.
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
There's a man with a gum over there
There's a man with a gun over there
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
Time to stop, gee, what's that sound
Everybody look, what's going down
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody knows what's going down
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
What a field day for the geese.
What a field day for the heat.
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
What a field day for the heat
Cows and people in the street.
What a field day for the heat
A thousand people in the street.
"For What It's Worth" (MP3)
What a fill before they eat
What a field day for the heat
The 'heat' being, obviously, the police, as the song is about young people demonstrating in the '60.
"For What It’s Worth" (MP3)
The satellites being brought
There’s battle lines being drawn
"For What It’s Worth" (MP3)
There's a man with a gun over there, telling me what I got to wear.
There's a man with a gun over there, telling me I got to beware.
"For What It’s Worth" (MP3)
What it is ain’t exactly bleak
What it is ain’t exactly clear
For the thought that I caught that my hair is the event of the season.
For the thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season.
"Rock & Roll Woman" (MP3)
She's a Georgia knoll.
She's a joy to know