![]() Sing along, and be sure to scream long and loud at the end, just as Daltry did. Better yet, check out the lyrics to the final stanza of this awesome rock-n-roll tune. If your side won yesterday, enjoy the buzz that comes with victory. ![]() So I guess you could say I’ve come to accept Pete Townshend’s anthem of resignation about the political system, even if I don’t interpret the lyrics exactly the way he does. But life goes on, as Billy Joel told us five years later, “no matter who (is) wrong or right.” I’m also not nearly as liberal as I was then. But The Who didn’t lift my spirits in quite the same way as they did 35 years ago.īack then, when I cast my first vote for a dude from South Dakota, I honestly believed things could change. Cranked it up so loud the windows in my Subaru were pulsating (Yeah, I still drive a “hippie” car.). I listened to “Won’t Get Fooled Again” on my way to the polls yesterday. Political activism isn’t as prevalent on campus today. I got lucky and didn’t have to join them. Our boys died in Vietnam for a few more years. I also had a draft card with 1-A status along with a sincere hope that our nation would find its way out of Southeast Asia before asking me to join the fray. I won’t lay claim to the “hippie” title, but I did have the requisite shoulder-length hair, and I aspired to the hippie lifestyle. Anti-war sentiment was everywhere, and so were the hippies. When I arrived at the East Green on Ohio University in 1971, that song was blasting from every window in the quad. It happens that this political anthem is also the song I most associate with my college days. Ironically, “Won’t Get Fooled Again” was written and recorded by a bunch of Brits - a band called The Who. ![]() When I woke up Tuesday, I had to hear my favorite Election-Day song - and quite possibly the best rock-n-roll song ever recorded. ![]()
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