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REVOLUTIONARIES MAN

When Patty and the SLA carjack a teenager, he’s unexpectedly delighted to be joyriding with his world-famous captors

Bobbitty bop bop bop bop baa

Whoa oh oh here we go, here we go now

Zop zop, zapta top top (zow zow zow)

 

Whenever trouble struggles up

You know who’s to blame (you know)

Revolutionaries man

Whenever trouble struggles up

You know who to name (you know)

Revolutionaries man

 

Here we go, here we go

Huey Newton, Jesse Owens

Ho Chi Minh, Galileo Galilee (hee hee)

Ba baddaa da dabba dee dee

Revolutionaries

 

Man oh man oh man

Medgar Evers, Gertrude Stein

Emma Goldman, Comrade Nijinsky

(hee hee)

 

Whenever trouble struggles up

You know who’s to blame (you know)

Whenever trouble bubbles up

You know who’s to blame (you know)

Revolutionaries man

Turn the world, turn the world, man

(upside down) (roll it) (you know it brother)

 

Leon Trotsky, Martin and Lewis?

No, no ,no! Martin Luther, first and junior

William Burroughs (oh oh)

Revolutionaries man

 

Zop zop, zap ta top top, zow zow zow

Here we go, here we go now

Freddy Douglas, Il Maestro Fellini

Warhol and his crazy famous fifteeni

Whoa oh oh (atta boy, atta boy)

 

Whenever trouble struggles up

You know who’s to blame (you know)

When big trouble cuddles up

You know who’s inflamed (you know)

Skedaddle waddle wah wah (zah zah zah)

Revolutionaries man

 

Nicola Tesla, Igor Stravinski-hee-hee

Simon Bolivar, Christine Jorgensen

(do do do, da da da, deng)

Revo-fuckin-lutionaries baby

(pitchforks and torches)

(et tu Marcus Brutus)

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Yukio Mishima, Gautama Siddhartha

Ernesto Guevera, Jawaharlal Nehru (ooh ooh)

Eldridge Cleaver, Jack and Neil

Pabs Picasso, Yoko Ono (oh no oh no)

Aleister Crowley, Cassius Clay

Jean Paul Marat

(watcha step, watcha step, ah ah ah)

Whoa oh oh

Bertold Brecht, Bobby Seale

Rosa Parks (ah ah ah)

Bernadine Dohrn, Copernicus

Ziggy Freud, Oscar Wilde (wild man wild)

Mario Savio, Vinny Van Gogh

Ginsberg, Allen (howl man howl)

Patrice Lumumba, Niels Bohr

Timothy Leary, Saul Alinsky

Sojourner Truth (ooh ooh ooh)

Hey-Zeus della Christo..! (oh oh oh)

 

Ba baddaa da dabba dee dee

Revolutionaries

Man oh man oh man

(crash and burn it, crash and burn)

Whenever trouble struggles up

You know, you know who’s to blame (you know)

 

When big trouble struggles up

It ain’t no plainer (you know)

Zop zop, zap ta top top (zow zow zow)

Bobbitty bop bop bop bop baa

Whoa oh oh

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