Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth (good sound quality!) Shmoop: This gentle call would have fallen flat had it not struck a chord with something building within the hearts of Americas young people. This line might not have stirred such a response if the political climate was not as turbulent as it was. And had the next few years played out differently, the song might have passed into obscurity as quickly as the last train to Clarksville. But “For What It’s Worth” was written during a time when baby boomers were fighting for their own cultural freedoms, African Americans were fighting for basic civil liberties, and US soldiers were fighting for their lives in Vietnam, and across the nation protesters of all kinds took up the song as their anthem.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:58:03 +0000
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