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Wont Get Fooled Again is the classic rocknroll 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.\r
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It is the final track on The Whos 1971 album Whos Next. Uploaded here in its full glory, a drastically edited single version reached #15 in the US and #9 on the UK charts. \r
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Well be fighting in the streets\r
With our children at our feet\r
And the morals that they worship will be gone\r
And the men who spurred us on\r
Sit in judgment of all wrong\r
They decide and the shotgun sings the song\r
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Ill tip my hat to the new constitution\r
Take a bow for the new revolution\r
Smile and grin at the change all around me\r
Pick up my guitar and play\r
Just like yesterday\r
And Ill get on my knees and pray\r
We dont get fooled again\r
Dont get fooled again\r
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Change it had to come\r
We knew it all along\r
We were liberated from the fall thats all\r
But the world looks just the same\r
And history aint changed\r
Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war\r
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Ill tip my hat to the new constitution\r
Take a bow for the new revolution\r
Smile and grin at the change all around me\r
Pick up my guitar and play\r
Just like yesterday\r
And Ill get on my knees and pray\r
We dont get fooled again\r
Dont get fooled again\r
No, no!\r
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Ill move myself and my family aside\r
If we happen to be left half alive\r
Ill get all my papers and smile at the sky\r
For I know that the hypnotized never lie\r
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Do ya?\r
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Theres nothing in the street\r
Looks any different to me\r
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye\r
And the parting on the left\r
Is now the parting on the right\r
And the beards have all grown longer overnight\r
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Ill tip my hat to the new constitution\r
Take a bow for the new revolution\r
Smile and grin at the change all around me\r
Pick up my guitar and play\r
Just like yesterday\r
Then Ill get on my knees and pray\r
We dont get fooled again\r
Dont get fooled again\r
No, no!\r
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!\r
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Meet the new boss\r
Same as the old boss
