| Hair – Three-Five-Zero-Zero Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Are you Americans? Because what you seem to have missed is that 3500 was the estimated population in Harlem at the time this song was written. So although all the above descriptions of the number 3-5-0-0 are correct, this song also denotes the liberation of the still (in the US) enslaved african-americans by the means of revolution sugessting that the movements in the 60´s should overcome the rasism in the US by waging war. I am Swedish and white and we are tought this in school, but black history is a subject often oversighted in the US still so I am not surprised no-one knew the answer. It is a song with a lot of deeper meanings... |
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