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Street Fighting Man Lyrics
Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, oh boy
Cause summer's here, and the time is right for fighting in the street, oh 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
No
Hey! Think the time is right for a palace revolution
But 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 no place for a street fighting man
No
Hey! 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 no place for a street fighting man
No
Cause summer's here, and the time is right for fighting in the street, oh 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
No
But 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 no place for a street fighting man
No
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 no place for a street fighting man
No
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one of the great protest songs of all time.
Song was written after JAgger marched in Vietnam rally.
Intresting note: This song was actually banned at a chicago vietnam rally for fear of causing a riot. Definitley a rally starting kind of song.
I thought the king lyric was right. It's quite funny trying to imagine Mick Jagger as a street fighting man...now Keith Richards...thats another story! By the way: this song is great!
Keith Richards fucked up tuning with the engaging rhythm is the backbone of this song. This is one of the most original rock songs of the 60s.
Purportedly, the inspiration for this song is Tariq Ali, a strident British Pakistani.
Wikipedia: "The song is about political strife, and Jagger allegedly wrote it about Tariq Ali after Jagger attended several of Ali's demonstrations. In 1987, Ali released an autobiography of the 1960's entitled Street Fighting Years, which gives credence to the theory that the song was inspired by Ali's public demonstrations. "
i love this song
Hell yeah! Rolling Stones, Street Fighting Man! G7!!!
You just hit G8......
You just hit G8......
......."If you like pina coladas!"
......."If you like pina coladas!"
Just heard this song for the first time today, and I have to say, it's punk as fuck, without all the trappings of playing too fast or sounding like a snotty kid from the suburbs. I can imagine that guys in bands like The Clash and The Damned secretly cranked this up when none of the excessively "true" believers of punk were around to deride them for it. Rock and roll will outlive mankind!
This reminds me of Stokely Carmichael's slogan, "Burn, Baby, Burn."
At this time, the US military was killing 500 innocent civilians per week in Vietnam. The whole world knew it. The only people in the dark were dim witted, red stated, fried-pork-rind eating American dunces
The British were fed up. At the time this song came out, hundreds of thousands marched on the US embassy in London and Jagger was there.
My dream: To throw Molotov cocktails into mansions while this song is blasting in the background
The actual lyric is "kill the queen" and man, this was so written before the Brixton riots, etc. There's PLENTY for a "street fighting man" to do in London these days.
Actually, listening to it, it's "I'll kill the king"
Actually, listening to it, it's "I'll kill the king"