To: Lurking Libertarian
"Beach Boys parody"
I'd say it was more of a tribute.
7 posted on
12/06/2010 6:15:08 PM PST by
Mariner
(USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
To: Mariner; Lurking Libertarian
It was neither. It was a satirical stab at how communist the US had become, even at that time. And Lennon saw it. He saw what the feds were up to way back then. It's part of why they wanted to deport him so badly.
Think of the lyrics,
"Back in the US . . . back in the US . . . back in the USSR"
19 posted on
12/06/2010 6:39:11 PM PST by
tisket
("So many guns around town and so few brains." - Humphrey Bogart in "The Big Sleep")
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