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For What It’s Worth Lyrics By The Staple Singers

    something happen in here
    what it is ain’t exactly clear
    there’s a man with a gun over there
    telling me i got to beware

    it’s time to stop children what’s that sound
    everybody look what’s going down

    battle lines being drawn
    nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
    young people speaking their minds
    getting so much resistance from behind

    it’s time to stop children what’s that sound
    everybody look what’s going down

    what a field day for the heat
    a thousand people in the street
    singing songs and carrying signs
    mostly say hooray for our side

    it’s time to stop children what’s that sound
    everybody look what’s going down

    paranoia strikes deep
    into your life it will creep
    it hurts when you’re always afraid
    step out of line the man comes and takes you away

    it’s time to stop children what’s that sound
    everybody look what’s going down

    stop children what’s that sound
    everybody look what’s going down
    stop children what’s that sound
    everybody look what’s going down

    Artist: The Staple Singers

    Year: 1967

    Decade: 60s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 106