For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield, The, 1967). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-03-27. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"
"For What It's Worth," written by Stephen Stills, rose to the #7 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1967, was inducted into the Grammy: Hall of Fame in 2000, was the group's only top 40 hit, and was placed #63 on the Rolling Stone's list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." (grammy.com, 2022; ultimate-guitar.com, 2018; Whitburn, 2013). The song is based on a protest that occurred on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood back in 1966. Kids were protesting the closing of a local club, Pandora's Box (laurelcanyonradio.com, 2017). It is now considered "one of pop's most-covered protest songs" (laurelcanyonradio.com, 2017). Producer Ahmet Ertegun suggest the song be called “(Stop, Hey What’s That Sound) For What It’s Worth" because the phrase "for what it's worth" is nowhere in the lyrics (ultimate-guitar.com, 2018). As an aside, the band was named after the Buffalo-Springfield steamroller (rockfall.com, 2022).
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Lyrics:
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
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 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
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