Final Exam Essay

Song Lyrics; as these originate from separate locations, song information and lyric source follows each one

“For What It's Worth” by Buffalo Springfield

There’s something happening here

What it is ain’t exactly clear

There’s a man with a gun over there

Telling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound

Everybody look what’s going down

There’s battle lines being drawn

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong

Young people speaking their minds

Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound

Everybody look what’s going down

What a field-day for the heat

A thousand people in the street

Singing songs and carrying signs

Mostly say, hooray for our side

It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound

Everybody look what’s going down

Paranoia strikes deep

Into your life it will creep

It starts when you’re always afraid

You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what’s that sound

Everybody look what’s going down

Stop, hey, what’s that sound

Everybody look what’s going down

Stop, now, what’s that sound

Everybody look what’s going down

Stop, children, what’s that sound

Everybody look what’s going down

Written by Stephen Stills from the self-title album Buffalo Springfield (1966) on Atco Records. Lyrics from the

website Rush at <www.rush.com/songs/for-what-its-worth/>; retrieved on 30 November 2019.

“Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'

We're finally on our own

This summer I hear the drummin'

Four dead in Ohio

Gotta get down to it

Soldiers are gunning us down

Should have been done long ago

What if you knew her and

Found her dead on the ground?

How can you run when you know?

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Gotta get down to it

Soldiers are cutting us down

Should have been done long ago

What if you knew her and

Found her dead on the ground?

How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'

We're finally on our own

This summer I hear the drummin'

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Four dead in Ohio

Written by Neil Young and released as a single on Ohio/Find the Cost of Freedom in June 1970 on Atlantic

Records. Lyrics from the website 30 Days 30 Songs at <www.30days30songs.com/102>; retrieved on 30

November 2019.

"Student Demonstration Time" by The Beach Boys

Starting out with Berkeley Free Speech

And later on at People's Park

The winds of change fanned into flames

Student demonstrations spark

Down to Isla Vista where police felt so harassed

They called the special riot squad of the L. A. County Sheriff

Well there's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

Student demonstration time

The violence spread down South to where Jackson State brothers

Learned not to say nasty things about Southern policemen's mothers

Nothing much was said about it and really next to nothing done

The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for a gun

Well there's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

Well there's a riot going on

'Cause it's student demonstration time

America was stunned on May 4, 1970

When rally turned to riot up at Kent State University

They said the students scared the Guard

Though the troops were battle dressed

Four martyrs earned a new degree

The Bachelor of Bullets

I know we're all fed up with useless wars and racial strife

But next time there's a riot, well, you best stay out of sight

Well there's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

Well there's a riot going on

Student demonstration time

Stay away when there's a riot going on

Student demonstration

Stay away when there's a riot going on

Student demonstration

Stay away when there's a riot going on

Student demonstration

Stay away when there's a riot going on

It's student demonstration

Stay away when there's a riot going on

[refrain continues]

Written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and Mike Love; released on the album Surf's Up in 1971 on Brother

Records/Reprise Records. Lyrics from the website AZ Lyrics at

<www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beachboys/studentdemonstrationtime.html>; retrieved on 30 November 2019.