“For What It’s Worth” Buffalo Springfield (1967)

“There's battle lines being drawn nobody's right if everybody's wrongYoung people speaking their mindsGetting so much resistance from behindI think it's time we stop, hey, what's that soundEverybody look what's going down”

Document Purpose

• The song was written to open people’s minds to wrong-doings of the government in the Vietnam War.

Document Bias

• Buffalo Springfield was a band that was part of the “counterculture” of the sixties, their views of the war are very critical and opposing.

Outside Information/Inferences

• “Young people speaking their minds” refers to the “counterculture”

• “…resistance from behind,” refers to the government frowning upon the opposition to the war

• Kent State Massacre a few years later• Represented the “counterculture” protest movement

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