Street Fighting Man Lyrics

Lyric discussion by RedolentRebel 

Cover art for Street Fighting Man lyrics by Rolling Stones, The

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