Ev'rywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy
'Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
But what can a poor boy do Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band
'Cause in sleepy London town There's just no place for a street fighting man
Hey! Think the time is right for a violent revolution
'Cause where I live the game to play is compromise solution
Well, then what can a poor boy do Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band
'Cause in sleepy London town There's just no place for a street fighting man
Said my name is called disturbance I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king,
I'll rail at all his servants Well, what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band 'Cause in sleepy London town
There's just no place for a street fighting man No (sing365)
This song deals with civil unrest in Europe and America in 1968. There were student riots in London and Paris, and Vietnam protests in America. It was the first Stones song to make a strong political statement. Mick Jagger got the idea for the song in March, 1968 when he went to an anti-war rally at the US embassy in London and saw mounted police wading into a crowd of 25,000. (songfacts)
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide series of protests, largely participated in by students and workers.
The protests that raged throughout 1968 included a large number of students. Worldwide, campuses became battle grounds for social change. While opposition to the Vietnam War dominated the protests , they also protested for civil liberties, against racism, forfeminism, and the beginnings of the ecological movement can be traced to the protests against biological and nuclear weapons during this year. Television, so influential in forming the political identity of this generation became the tool of choice for the revolutionaries. They fought their battles not just on college campuses but also on the television screen by courting media coverage.
Mexico City, West Berlin, Rome, London and many U.S. cities saw relatively small protests against university administrations. Some countries, like Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Brazil, had more widespread protests against repressive governments. In Paris, Italy and Argentina, the students were joined by the labor unions.
In the United States, the Civil Rights Movement had turned away from the south and toward the cities in the north with the issues of open housing and the Black Consciousness Movement. The Black movement unified as a movement and gained international recognition with the emergence of the Black Power and Black Panthers organizations and their support of violence as a means of protest. (wikipedia)
Student protest, May 1968, Paris
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