I was talking to my caregiver (a 40 year old person) and she had never heard of the Musical "Hair"... So I sang her a bit of Manchester England England...
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy.[1] The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale.[2]
Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves, and the sexual revolution with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society. Ultimately, Claude must decide whether to resist the draft as his friends have done, or to succumb to the pressures of his parents (and conservative America) to serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifist principles and risking his life.
The Fifth Dimension singing Age of Aquarius...
When the moon, is in the seventh house,
Cmaj7 D/A Em
And Jupiter, aligns with Mars.
Cmaj7 D/A Em
Then peace, will guide the planets,
C D G (n.C)
And lo-ove, will steer the stars.
[Chorus 1:]
(n.C) F Am
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, age of A-quarius.
D Am
A-quarius... A-quarius.
[Bridge 1:]
G C G C
Harmony and under-standing, sympathy and trust a-bounding.
G C Am G/B C
No more falsehoods or de-risions, golden living dreams of visions,
E7 Am Dm Em
Mystic crystal reve-lations and the mind's true liber-ation.
Dm Am
A-quarius... A-quarius.
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Abm Eb7 Abm E B
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine, the sunshine in.
Abm Eb7 Abm E B
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine, the sunshine in.
Abm Eb7 Abm E B
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine, the sunshine in.
Abm Eb7 Abm E B
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine, the sunshine in.
(Repeat to Fade)
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