I love this song. It's an angry comment on Police Brutality from the point of view of a bunch of Hippies...circa 1967. The conservative american establishment didn't like the hippies and their itinerant lifestyles and came down on them like a ton of bricks (Kent state, Ronald Reagan's condemnation of them).
I love the romantic imagery of this song...A hippie camp in a Steinbeck style Californian Valley under the light of a harvest moon...sitting round a camp fire singing songs under the stars, snuggling up to your sweetheart, smoking pot and lamenting how the police drove us out of town because they don't understand our lifestyle.......
I love this song. It's an angry comment on Police Brutality from the point of view of a bunch of Hippies...circa 1967. The conservative american establishment didn't like the hippies and their itinerant lifestyles and came down on them like a ton of bricks (Kent state, Ronald Reagan's condemnation of them).
I love the romantic imagery of this song...A hippie camp in a Steinbeck style Californian Valley under the light of a harvest moon...sitting round a camp fire singing songs under the stars, snuggling up to your sweetheart, smoking pot and lamenting how the police drove us out of town because they don't understand our lifestyle.......