This is a song about a stupid guy who barely remembers any of the history of the 60's, despite the fact that he grew up in the decade.
All sorts of famous events are sort of mushed together and remebered incorrectly. Like he refers to "Selma and some blacks" obviously a confused memory of the famed civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.
Other things he mentions: Johnson's wax, which was a brand of glue, and not the ear wax of President Lyndon Johnson. The book depository, the place from where Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy. There is no "King of Cuba" but there is President-for-life Castro, who came to power around the same time.
Chinese people fighting in the park is probably a reference to the riots in the "People's Park" in California, which has a sort of Communist-sounding name. Martin X is obviously supposed to be Malcom X, a guy who was concerned with black power, not bell bottoms.
And the Expo 67 was a horrible fair they had in Canada, not some sort of rebel group, like the Chicago Seven.
I am not quite sure what purple toupee means, though...
This is a song about a stupid guy who barely remembers any of the history of the 60's, despite the fact that he grew up in the decade.
All sorts of famous events are sort of mushed together and remebered incorrectly. Like he refers to "Selma and some blacks" obviously a confused memory of the famed civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.
Other things he mentions: Johnson's wax, which was a brand of glue, and not the ear wax of President Lyndon Johnson. The book depository, the place from where Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy. There is no "King of Cuba" but there is President-for-life Castro, who came to power around the same time.
Chinese people fighting in the park is probably a reference to the riots in the "People's Park" in California, which has a sort of Communist-sounding name. Martin X is obviously supposed to be Malcom X, a guy who was concerned with black power, not bell bottoms.
And the Expo 67 was a horrible fair they had in Canada, not some sort of rebel group, like the Chicago Seven.
I am not quite sure what purple toupee means, though...