Subscribe to The Best Of for more classic music history, videos and playlists: \r<br>\r<br>Wont Get Fooled Again is the classic rocknroll call to arms for refuseniks and the disenfranchised. Composer Pete Townshend said about writing the song There was a transition in me from refusal to be co-opted by activists, to a refusal to be judged by people I found jaded and compliant.\r<br>\r<br>It is the final track on The Whos 1971 album Whos Next. Uploaded here in its full glory, a drastically edited single version reached #15 in the US and #9 on the UK charts. \r<br>\r<br>Like us on Facebook: \r<br>Follow us on Twitter: \r<br>\r<br>Visit for more information.\r<br>\r<br>Lyrics: \r<br>\r<br>Well be fighting in the streets\r<br>With our children at our feet\r<br>And the morals that they worship will be gone\r<br>And the men who spurred us on\r<br>Sit in judgment of all wrong\r<br>They decide and the shotgun sings the song\r<br>\r<br>Ill tip my hat to the new constitution\r<br>Take a bow for the new revolution\r<br>Smile and grin at the change all around me\r<br>Pick up my guitar and play\r<br>Just like yesterday\r<br>And Ill get on my knees and pray\r<br>We dont get fooled again\r<br>Dont get fooled again\r<br>\r<br>Change it had to come\r<br>We knew it all along\r<br>We were liberated from the fall thats all\r<br>But the world looks just the same\r<br>And history aint changed\r<br>Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war\r<br>\r<br>Ill tip my hat to the new constitution\r<br>Take a bow for the new revolution\r<br>Smile and grin at the change all around me\r<br>Pick up my guitar and play\r<br>Just like yesterday\r<br>And Ill get on my knees and pray\r<br>We dont get fooled again\r<br>Dont get fooled again\r<br>No, no!\r<br>\r<br>Ill move myself and my family aside\r<br>If we happen to be left half alive\r<br>Ill get all my papers and smile at the sky\r<br>For I know that the hypnotized never lie\r<br>\r<br>Do ya?\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>Theres nothing in the street\r<br>Looks any different to me\r<br>And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye\r<br>And the parting on the left\r<br>Is now the parting on the right\r<br>And the beards have all grown longer overnight\r<br>\r<br>Ill tip my hat to the new constitution\r<br>Take a bow for the new revolution\r<br>Smile and grin at the change all around me\r<br>Pick up my guitar and play\r<br>Just like yesterday\r<br>Then Ill get on my knees and pray\r<br>We dont get fooled again\r<br>Dont get fooled again\r<br>No, no!\r<br>\r<br>YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!\r<br>\r<br>Meet the new boss\r<br>Same as the old boss
