16 Aug 2017

The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

Subscribe to The Best Of for more classic music history, videos and playlists: http://bit.ly/WdJ36u “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is the classic rock’n’roll call to arms for refuseniks and the disenfranchised. Composer Pete Townshend said about writing the song “There was a transition in me from refusal to be co-opted by activists, to a refusal to be judged by people I found jaded and compliant”. It is the final track on The Who’s 1971 album Who’s Next. Uploaded here in it’s full glory, a drastically edited single version reached #15 in the US and #9 on the UK charts. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRealBestOf Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealBestOf Visit https://www.thewho.com for more information. Lyrics: We’ll be fighting in the streets With our children at our feet And the morals that they worship will be gone And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgment of all wrong They decide and the shotgun sings the song I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday And I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t get fooled again Don’t get fooled again Change it had to come We knew it all along We were liberated from the fall that’s all But the world looks just the same And history ain’t changed ‘Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday And I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t get fooled again Don’t get fooled again No, no! I’ll move myself and my family aside If we happen to be left half alive I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky For I know that the hypnotized never lie Do ya? There’s nothing in the street Looks any different to me And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye And the parting on the left Is now the parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around me Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t get fooled again Don’t get fooled again No, no! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Meet the new boss Same as the old boss