Added: Oct 10, 2006
From: jigowatts
Duration: 3:51
Happy 67th birthday john !! As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and class less and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be There's room at the top they are telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be If you want to be a hero well just follow me If you want to be a hero well just follow me
Channel: Music
Tags: band class fate hero john lennon life love ono peace plastic working yoko
beatityatube Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - But the American "working-class" deludes itself into believing it's the middle-class. Al Bundy is working class, Archie Bunker is working class. If you work for UPS or shovel shit for a living, then guess what you are working class, live with it. Know your enemy. :-)
beatityatube Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - And your thoughts on the fact that President Elect Obama has no exit strategy either and it now looks like the US commitment will be 3 more years - the Iraqi Parliament have set that deadline - NOT the US! American Democracy is a myth, if you haven't realised that already. Two sides of the same coin, which compromises either way.
beatityatube Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Absolutely! You got it!
ashbadabada Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - greatest song of all time !gives us courage thank u john !
Krabuge Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - i prefer Green DAy's Version
Czymra Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - If you'd get the idea behind this song it's for sure that Green Day's interpretation has desecrated this.
555xXDeathXx666 Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - I prefer this to green day, has anyone heard the ozzy osbourne cover?, thats okay too
fluxdude307 Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - beatityatube at least we wont stay there for a hundred years like with mccain and also it is stupid that we didnt set a deadline that was much sooner considering that we already have trillions of dollars of debt lastly do u have a life or do you just yell at people on youtube?
yopipo Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - please...one day, soon...
MarekM420 Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - I don't believe that delusions of grandeur are the issue, i think its the "grand delusion" itself of a class structure being a required government to achieve stability. It seems to me to be a lack of personal responsibility much like the belief in deities. I don't think the enemy is the upper-class people but the very mentality that this type of hierarchy is or should be tolerated. The solution seems to be unfortunately slow and that is"word of mouth" stop being a peasant... kill the king
BafanaBafanaZoetka Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - If you put things in to contect of the time it was made,I believe this is a much better song
Knowntje Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - I heard the greenday version and I thought the original version must have been much better, but I'm pretty disapointed
gypsyroad1 Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - If you guys think Green Day has a good cover.. go listen to the Blind Melon cover. In my opinion, next to the original, its the best. Blind Melon is the best. Shannon Hoon is the best.
beatityatube Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - Yes I've got a life? I also have a purpose and an avowed hatred of the class system. Do you?
bluntbongblades Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - homo i bet you grow your hair out just like the beatles or any of them john died your mommy cryed so some respect
LuciferThe4rth Says:
Dec 2, 2008 - Awesome song man. I am a metalhead... but Lennon and the Beatles are just irresistible. Beautiful lyrics! Check out Ozzy;s cover on this song. Awesome as Hell!
fluxdude307 Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - yes, but I aknowledge the fact that you cant erase the class system because it is human nature to want to feel better than someone else, so basically it's impossible to destroy the class system because people will just put it back in place again when you are dead.
beatityatube Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - That is exactly the futile brainwashed conditioning that you are meant to accept. We are all conditioned and all pidgeon-holed from the day we are born. Read the works of John Locke and you might change your opinions. Class is a form of mental conditioning. The worst victims of class system are those who believe themselves social climbers. Consider that the ruling class of the UK have been in power since before 1066. 1,000 years of inequality, poverty, slavery, being used as pawns in warfare.
melanie21morgan Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - john lennon is love this song explains everything
bo88gdan Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - Stalin Was Only Working Class Hero In History of man kind !! and Jesus Too !
jesusnixon Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - fuck lennon in his stupid dead ass
Trem1967 Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - Wow I feel sorry for you and your senseless hatred.
jesusnixon Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - thanks
REDLADYJANE Says:
Dec 3, 2008 - jOHN IS GREAT!
beatityatube Says:
Dec 1, 2008 - Oh I'm so fucking scared. Just fuck off you social-climbing piece of excrement. The middle-class are breeder wankers who readily accept being pidgeon-holed in a social-class which makes them less than others. Now piss off to your Ivy League shithouse. I think you should look at the facts. In a Revolution, the bourgeois middle-class would be first to go at the hands of the angry mass. Now that you have a black President, who will accomplish fuck all in white America the risk is even greater.