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TurtleSpartan
Pretty fortuitous that 'school shootings' slots right in after ghetto scenes and doesn't break the meter of the lyric and thematically fits.
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silversurfer250
Randy Bachman explained the origins of this song in an interview with Words & Music magazine, Spring 2005. Said Bachman: "We were playing in a curling rink in Kitchener, Ontario (Canada), and I broke a string. I was up there alone, tuning up my E an B strings on an old Les Paul. I started playing that riff and in the audience, heads started turning. The band got up, and I said, 'Keep playing this, I don't want to forget it.' When Burton had run out of solos, I yelled out, 'Sing something!' So out of the blue Burton just screamed, 'American Woman, stay away from me!' That was the song, the riff and Burton yelling that line over and over. Later, he added other lines like 'I don't need your war machine, you ghetto scenes.' Before America knew it, it was a #1 record and it was a protest song." http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=446
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wdwsouthjersey
Lenny did it justice............I'd rather have the original. Just another kid of the 70's.
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gwsoderquist
check out this great Rockin' tune by DATT-SO called Can You Tell Me !! it's from the book UNFINISHED SONGS... You want to listen to some Great Guitar Work , Listen to CAN YOU TELL ME !! It'll get you ROCKIN' !!!
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oldiesfanjohn
@dd8ch..But Canada did get involved back then.. It took in the Draft-Dodgers.. Not a pleasant subject back then!..Open your mouth,insert foot!
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