Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend Woman is the nigger of the world... yes she is If you don't believe me, take a look at the one you're with Woman is the slave to thè slaves Yeh (think about it).
We insult her every day on TV And wonder why she has no.
guts or confidence When she's young we kill her will to be free While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb Woman is the nigger of Yes she is...if you don't believe me, take a look at the one you're with Woman is the slave to the slaves Yes she is... if you believe me, you better scream about it.
Repeat:
We make her paint her face and dance.
We make her paint her face and dance.
We make her paint her face and dance.
Socialist Challenge 10 December 1980 Page 8 John Lennon carrying Red Mole, predecessor of Socialist Challenge BRNISH in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many capitalist. Hurricane used to write magazines in and I knew about the class got lett out — I got fartne George and I said Listen, when they ask next time like that war and they should get right out.
that time this was a pretty radical thing to do, But you've got to remember that repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was In the two books I wrote, even though they were written knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I school and hand them around.
I was very conscious of class, they would say with a chip on my shoulder, because I knew what happened to me repression coming down on us - it was a fucking fact but in the hurricane Beatle world it away from reality for a time We went to America a fev times and Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when political bits we're going to say we don't we think That's what we did. At especially for the 'Fab Four'. It was the first opportunity I personally took to wave the flag a bit.
war was ''d always felt hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially workbe So in its way the second political thing I did was to sa! 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus'. That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.
Up to then there was this unspoken policy of not answering delicate questions, though I always read the papers, you know, the The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
Of course, going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan Horse.
The Fab Four moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then
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