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“For What It’s Worth” Buffalo Springfield (1967) “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”
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Document Purpose The song was written to open people’s minds to wrong-doings of the government in the Vietnam War.
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Document Bias Buffalo Springfield was a band that was part of the “counterculture” of the sixties, their views of the war are very critical and opposing.
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Outside Information/Inferences “Young people speaking their minds” refers to the “counterculture” “…resistance from behind,” refers to the government frowning upon the opposition to the war Kent State Massacre a few years later Represented the “counterculture” protest movement Document Menu
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