We were talking about John Lennon in class the other day. John Lennon was one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time, and a founder member of the Beatles. He was murdered by Mark Chapman in December 1980.
He was born in Liverpool into a working class family. This song, one of his most powerful and angry songs, describes what it means to come from the working class, and to try to get out of it. The class system in the UK is still very strong, and many of the things John sings about in the song are still relevant today.
Listen to the song, read the lyrics. Let me know what you think of it.
Vocabulary:
despise = hate something lower than you
keep you doped = keep someone in a state of dependency, make someone stupid
peasant = the lowest member of society, a term of abuse used to describe someone with no culture or education
There's room at the top = it's possible to rise to the top of society (the lyrics are a little bit wrong here on the video at 2.44)
folks on the hill = an idiom meaning rich, upper class people. These kind of people always live on a hill above the town where the poor people live.
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