Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today - Ya
Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Ah, what's going on
In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on
Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on - Uh
Right on baby
Right on baby
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today - Ya
Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Ah, what's going on
In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on
Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on - Uh
Right on baby
Right on baby
VIETNAM SONG ANALYSIS
Choose two songs embedded here other than What’s Going On. Listen to your song choice several times. Pay attention
to the lyrics. Write them down and make notations if it helps. Try to read
between the lines. Look for literary devices such as simile, metaphor and
parallelism. These devices are often used in well-written song lyrics.
Look
for poetic devices and poetic structure, such as internal and other rhyme
schemes found in poetry. Search the lyrics for hyperbole, symbolism and
beautiful language you would be more inclined to find in the works of noted
poets. Discuss the music of your song in terms of tone, mood, and how it works
with the song lyrics to enhance the overall message of the song. You don't need
to be able to read music to hear what's going on musically within a song.
Write
a one page analysis of each song you choose paying close attention to the
meaning of the song and the literary techniques mentioned above. Your analysis should reference what is the
main meaning of the song and why it relates to the Vietnam era, 1960’s or
both.
THIS
ASSIGNMENT IS DUE ON MONDAY MAY 14th.
VOCAB
A simile is a figure
of speech that indirectly compares two different things by
employing the words "like", "as", or "than”.
Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of
another.
Symbolism is the practice of
representing things by symbols, or of investing
things with a symbolic meaning or
character.
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