Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  



I Don't Think So

Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1972 Schroder Music Company, renewed 2000.


Will you make the revolution eating wheat germ?
I don't think so and I doubt it.
Or by tying macrame
Separated from your peers,
Who are selling pants at Sears?
I don't think so.
I've been working for the changes
Since I was the age of two,
And I haven't found the answers,
But I know that this is true,
If you go about to blast them out
With bombs and TNT,
They are better at that game, my friends,
Than you will ever be,
Or will you make the revolution eating wheat germ?
I don't think so and I doubt it,
I doubt it.

Will you make the revolution eating wheat germ?
I don't think so and I doubt it.
Will you overturn the world,
Will you shake the ruling class,
Saying offbeat kind of words?
I don't think so.
I've been working for the changes
Since I was the age of two,
And I haven't found the answers,
But I know that this is true,
If you go about to blast them out
With bombs and TNT,
They are better at that game, my friends,
Than you will ever be,
Or will you make the revolution eating wheat germ?
I don't think so and I doubt it,
I doubt it.


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