AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
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)
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