Well, I guess I don’t have to tell you that the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. It’s true, folks, we’ve got Israelites and Iranians clobbering each other with rockets and missiles and other folks demonstrating and rioting in the streets of L.A. and other cities because government agents are rounding up folks with brown skin and deporting them to faraway places like Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, not to mention college students from other countries are being banned from attending American colleges and universities and the national debt is at over 36 trillion dollars, thanks to our leader, who happens to be a convicted felon.
All of this is happening right before our eyes. If you were to ask me, I’d say this stinks. That’s right, there’s something in the air.
We got to get together sooner or later because the revolution’s here, and you know it’s right, and you know that it’s right. We have got to get it together, we have got to get it together, now. (“Something In the Air” – Thunderclap Newman – 1969)
By the way, this flower power late 60s rebellion genre English hit was produced by Pete Townsend of The Who, who also played bass guitar on the recording, which topped the charts in England for three weeks in 1969. Needless to say, but I will say it anyway, Thunderclap Newman was a “one hit wonder.”
Okay, so I was one of those long-haired peace creeps who walked out of class, along with my professors at Chapman College, to protest against an illegal and immoral undeclared war and who also marched down Market Street in San Francisco with 40,000 like-minded folks during the Spring Mobilization to End the War back on April 15, 1967. The end result is that LBJ decided not to make another run for president. Needless to say, we’re all proud of what we did back then.
And when I say “we’re” I don’t mean we’re as in you and me or you and I. Just a sec, folks, while I check my third-grade grammar guide. Let’s see, here it is: Use you and I when the phrase is the subject of the sentence and is performing the action. For example, “You and I are going to the store.” Wait a minute, this is getting complicated; why not just say, “We are going to the store.” Okay, I know what you thinking…Cop out.
I guess we’re lucky because none of this nonsense is going on in our lovely, forested communities. And when I say we’re, I mean you and I.
Lock up the streets and houses because there’s something in the air. We got to get together sooner or later because the revolution’s here, and you know it’s right, and you know that it’s right.
Keep it flyin’,
Uncle Mott
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