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This is what I want, I want all the punks to take to the streets
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playing their guitars 

This is what I want
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It's what I want

This is what I want: Black kids and white kids sharing all the songs
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that their grandmamma's taught 'em

This is what I want
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It's what I want
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And we'll play 'em on our horns, we'll bang em on our drums,
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we'll play 'em on our guitars
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on our guitars

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Singing songs that our mothers sang to us when we were young,
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or songs that we may remember reading
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Songs we heard a stranger sing or humming on the streets
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Songs we made up yesterday, on the porch, in the rain on our guitars

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And we'll never sing a song we heard on your radio,
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or a song someone else was paid to write or sing
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and we'll never sing of sex or of the fakest kind of love,
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those songs will not be played on our guitars
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On our guitars  On our guitars
          
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And we'll play em on our horns, we'll bang em on our drums,
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we'll play em on our guitars
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On our guitars