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Sixties, time of a noisy revolution


Generations have come and gone, each of them will proclaim,
They lived at the best time ever, their selfish claim to fame,
However one decade will record a historical era of change,
Teenagers everywhere decided it was a world to re-arrange.

Living with a nuclear threat, with death in a mushroom cloud,
They began to live for the day, and they shouted it out loud,
Their music and attitudes, unconstrained by draconian rules,
A philosophy spread like wildfire through colleges and schools,

Many wars raged, for political ends they sacrificed the young,
Now the world would hear them in the protest songs they sung,
A peace movement was born with a universal need to agree,
Sharing  equality for creed and colour, with borders for the free,

Music the common language, with new words invading the scene,
It was a groovy time, where kids stood up for what they mean,
Martin Luther paid the price for a world threatened by new “rights”
Seeing a new future possible for a world cursed by political fights,

Now we the Baby Boomers, somewhat resistant to change as well,
Know the difference of what is true and what was a product of hell,
The world's a safer place, but complacency now becomes our foe,
Don't waste a sixties revolution, it showed the world where to go

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