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Well alright!
CHORUS
It's 1969 ok
We got a war across the USA
There's nothing here for me and you
We're just sitting here with nothing to do
There's nothing here for me and you
Another year with nothing to do
Now last year I was 21
I didn't have a lot of fun
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
CHORUS
Well it's 1969, Baby
Well it's 1969, Baby
It's 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9-teen 69
Teen 69 [repeat x3]
Yow! [repeat x3]
It's 1969 ok
We got a war across the USA
There's nothing here for me and you
We're just sitting here with nothing to do
Another year with nothing to do
Now last year I was 21
I didn't have a lot of fun
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
Well it's 1969, Baby
It's 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9-teen 69
Teen 69 [repeat x3]
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Submitted by
o0sid0o On Aug 23, 2002
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A Stooges cover, originally from their eponymous first album. Eldritch mentions that both he and founder-Sister Gary Marx were Stooges fans in the liner notes to Some Girls Wander By Mistake.
Are the lyrics really right? Shouldn't it be "All across the USA" as the second line? I don't think the "war" thing fits. In a war it's not like you "have nothing to do"...
I've just listened to the original and the Sisters cover and I'm pretty convinced it's "War across the USA." I've always taken it to refer to the confict between the generation of the Summer Of Love and the establishment, which was brought to a head by the Vietnam conflict.