John Lennon - Working Class Hero Lyrics

I often used listen to this through headphones @ 4am. doing night shifts😃

"AND YOU THINK YOUR SO CLEAVER AND CLASSLESS AND FREE, BUT YOUR STILL FUCKING PEASANTS AS FAR AS I CAN SEE" 🔥✊

Apparently he wrote this about macartney

put these on the radio and dedicate them to Healing Mother Earth, programming I suppose.........you know what I mean, I'll show you

your smarter than you give yourself credit.... Mum was contemplating leaving me in the hospital today as I was staaying for a while , she had to get back to work , for Dad and her 2 children at home.......so I've been baptised and given my last rites, little did they know where I had already been in the short span of this existance, healing always goes backwards, back to the beginning, back to the start of the heart of the matter.......How are You feeling ?? I'm going to have a shower and then will need to do my legs from the knees down..........down on my knees

Working class Heroes are who made this country Great! And working class Heroes keep it great with the help of God!

The first time I heard this song was Monday night Dec 8, 1980 just hours after John died. To this very day John's stark, almost mournful tone gives me chills and I'm instantly transported back to that dreadful night- sitting at my desk in my bedroom with the lights out.
Oh, untimely death.😢

the man was a legend

This song reminds me of my background. I can have more money than I can ever spend, but I will still remember how it was, living in a wardrobe, dreaming of another life.

When my parents went to work at the factory. When my father stole things to make life go around. How my grandparents were homeless.

Money is not everything, its what's in your soul is your true measure. God bless your parents and grandparents...Rod Stewart handbags and gladrags

True words,a very intelligent song writer who expressed himself with total honest.
Your missed sir...

John says more in a song than most artists say in a lifetime

And you still believe he was killed by a crazy fan?

"When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career" -- Many English boys his generations left school at 15 and were expected to bring in some money. He was spoilt rotten, and I'm not sure if he was aware of that.

For some reason the fact I’m going back to college soon reminds me of this song

this one is best for all lp... nikos tarantella restaurant xersonisos kreta

#Truth The pain is so big
And they give us medicine
Instead of a sane society.

Such brutal humanity

Kashmir..Palestine...Syria...Oppressed are so many and oppressors are so few.
I just cannot understand
Why we cannot sacrifice
For a sane society
Is worth the pain
For our children
Let's be women
Let's be men.

Yearning for freedom
In an oppressed society.

Israel, You are not my ountry
You are nothing but a greedy oil company.
You know you are lying
All your words
Are empty
And alone.

I really like this song.

The greatest there was, the greatest there is, there greatest there will ever be.

and the voice is so near

I liked the Carpenters version better frankly. I love John but this was cringeworthy rubbish pandering to adolescent minds, not the working class. This is an anthem for losers by someone who never worked a day in his life. Ringo could at least say he had blisters on his fingers. John would probably be embarrassed by this now if he was still alive. It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. The Dakota is the perfect place to write a song like Working Class Hero. That place is full of working class heroes like John and Yoyo. It's a living hell to wake up and look out at Central Park from your balcony. Hadn't heard this in years but it's perfect for today's lemmings raised on sjw narratives.

who 67 boss love this song

ABSOLUTELY 67

Yeah John don't I know it . Killed by the Catcher well we've all got our Catching sooner or later .......

Hearing this is like watching Van Gogh paint. He managed to mix beauty with such brutal honesty. Nobody, before or since, has even come close to him.

John for ever👍

Forget Dylan, Lennon was the master lyricist of the modern age.

All your taxes go to war most of it

Gorgeous song.

Tommy Robinson- working class hero

Holy Shit , cant believe they put an image of the Catcher In the Rye in the video. When Chapman shot Lennon he said he was inspired by the main character from the book.

I love John sm I don’t think he deserved all the shit he got😔🥀🖤

Long Live Revolution ❤🖤

this days they promote the fool

Im sure I see bits of Fleetwood,were John stayed with his Aunt,cool.

John kept telling us what is wrong with society, but we did not listen!!!!!!

The funny thing is that our society wants us to think that the working class now is just a distant memory, but it's not. The working class is not extincted and the white collars are the new blue collars in terms of alienation and exploitation. Just because now most of the first world population is middle class and live in a quite better material condition it doesn't mean that we are free and not repressed. The only difference is that we don't have a John Lennon to remind us this.

Great piece

a legend. an absolute legend.

Brilliant song and still so true. To quote John... "If you want to be a hero, well just follow me" over at https://ReEvolution.earth to be the hero YOU are meant to be 🙏

Miss You JOHN..

Best song ever...

Many people still don´t understand that great irony of the lyrics.

Please explain im too stoned to think 😂😂

The lyrics made so much sense, this guy was ahead of his time

The John Lennon revelations:



Was there a high-level MI5 agent in the British Workers Revolutionary Party?



By David North

2 March 2000



A former agent for the British Security Service (known as MI5) has alleged in a sworn statement that the agency received reports from a high-level spy inside the Workers Revolutionary Party during the late 1960s.



The ex-agent, David Shayler, is currently living in exile in France, where he has fled to escape prosecution for his exposure of state secrets. In his February 18 affidavit, Shayler asserts that the spy provided MI5 with reports of financial support given by John Lennon to the WRP.



Shayler recounts that he was shown portions of an MI5 file relating to the agency's surveillance of Lennon, whose socialist and anti-imperialist sentiments angered the British ruling class.



The affidavit states that the material “concerned Lennon's support for the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP), a Trotskyist organization. According to the file, a source in the WRP had reported that Lennon gave tens of thousands of pounds sterling to the WRP in the late 1960s and also provided some funds to the Irish Republican Army at around the same time.”



Shayler's statement was faxed to a federal district court in Los Angeles in support of a Freedom of Information Act motion filed by Professor Jon Wiener, who teaches history at the University of California, seeking the release of Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance material on Lennon that it had received from MI5.



The FBI has resisted releasing these files on the spurious grounds that they are the property of a foreign government. However, Judge Brian Q. Robbins ruled against the FBI two weeks ago and instructed it to release two letters in which the MI5 summarized the results of the anti-Lennon operation. The documents promise to shed light on the collaboration of US and British governments in the hounding of the great songwriter and musician. It is expected that the FBI will appeal Judge Robbins' ruling.



Ironically, MI5 had been reluctant to share its surveillance reports on Lennon with the FBI because it feared that this information would eventually reach the public. “MI5 believed,” writes Shayler, “that the FBI might make the information public and compromise its source in the WRP.”



An article that appeared in the Sunday Times of London on February 20 provides additional information. According to journalists John Harlow and Nicholas Rufford:



“Officers from MI5's F branch were already carrying out surveillance on the WRP, which was regarded as a serious threat to democracy in Britain. It had a ‘deep throat' within the organization, possibly the very person to whom Lennon talked. This, to MI5, made him a legitimate target—they wanted to know whether he was conspiratorial or just naïve.



“To this end they opened a general file on him, including newspaper cuttings and snatches of gossip.



“It appears also to have included a handwritten version of the lyrics to Lennon's most overtly political song, “Working Class Hero”. He had sent the sheet as a gift to the WRP and it was intercepted by MI5's agent in the party. Today the lyrics would be worth thousands of pounds at auction.”



The Sunday Times article also explains the origins of the collaboration of the FBI and MI5.



“In the early 1970s, when Lennon started worrying the FBI, the Washington agency approached its British colleagues for background information. The request, however, put MI5 into a quandary.



“ Lennon's anti-Vietnam activities were unsettling the American authorities and Nixon was anxious to discredit him. MI5 had, in principle, no problem with that but it feared that any information it handed over could endanger its mole within the WRP.



“A compromise was reached in Curzon Street, then MI5's intelligence headquarters in central London, and a summary of Lennon's file was sent to the FBI, omitting any details that could threaten the MI5 mole. They amounted to little more than a few pages that might encourage but not inflame the FBI, according to American sources.



“Certainly it struck a chord in Washington. Undercover agents tracked the Liverpool-born singer and his wife to Irish bars in New York that were holding fundraising events. Their agents even scribbled down the lyrics of the song he was performing. They noted that after the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972 he proclaimed: ‘If it's a choice between the IRA and the British army, I'm with the IRA.'”



Shayler's affidavit and the Sunday Times article by Harlow and Rufford raise serious questions that require further investigation. It has been known for more than a decade—certainly since the appearance of Peter Wright's Spycatcher (which the government of Prime Minister Thatcher attempted to suppress)—that the British state attempted to infiltrate agents into the Workers Revolutionary Party. This is the first time, however, that credible information has emerged that indicates that the state had an informer in the upper echelons of the organization.



The WRP, which was until 1985 the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, enjoyed a following among important sections of the working class and also among many well-known figures in the artistic community. During the 1960s, the organization—which was known until November 1973 as the Socialist Labour League—grew rapidly. It is not in the least improbable that John Lennon might have donated money to the British Trotskyists. He would have been one among many British artists who gave support to the revolutionary movement during that period.



However, too little information has been provided to accept Shayler's affidavit unconditionally, let alone the additional revelations of Harlow and Rufford. One incongruent element of Shayler's affidavit is its reference to the Workers Revolutionary Party rather than the Socialist Labour League. Any document prepared by the British state prior to the autumn of 1973 would have referred to the organization as the SLL. It may be that Shayler has simply used the better-known later name of the organization, with which politically-informed people are more likely to be familiar. This incongruity should be cleared up with the publication of the two letters whose release has been ordered by Judge Robbins.



If the information by Shayler is true, the next demand that socialists and all those committed to democratic rights must raise, in Britain and internationally, is the identification of the MI5 agent inside the SLL/WRP. This is important not only to expose the individual (or individuals) involved but to educate a new generation of socialists in the dangers posed by state infiltration and provocation.



According to Rufford and Harlow “there is no way of knowing about the current status of the WRP mole, although he or she is unlikely still to be active.”



This is not a situation that socialists can accept. First, it should be possible to determine whether there is any substance to the Shayler affidavit. There are former leaders of the SLL/WRP who must know whether John Lennon had any contact with the party in the 1960s and whether he donated money to the movement. If he did, this information would in all likelihood have been privy to a relatively small number of people. Moreover, if the story about the interception of the lyrics of “Working Class Hero” is true, an effort should be made to reconstruct who in the organization might have been in a position to get his or her hand on the handwritten sheet and then pass it on to MI5.



The International Committee of the Fourth International calls upon surviving former leaders of the SLL/WRP—and anyone else in the movement who might have relevant information—to contact the World Socialist Web Site or, if they wish, to issue a public statement independently.

A lackluster track with some good lyrics.

Intended that way

I love the lyrics so fucking true John Lennon is my hero ❤️

Imagine but not sugar coated. John said so.

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-old years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they're telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill

A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

I love the comments but you and I are still fucking sheeps

True, I really wanna 'break free', but I need money for every single thing in my life..

FRIKKIN AMAZING

#PresidentSanders

Joker ?

I'm 33 and still have no idea what "i want to do".

Red Salute to comrade Lennon !! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

They keep you doped with religion, sex, and tv.
And you think you’re so clever, and classless, and free.
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see. If that isn’t a near perfect description of human society. I don’t know what is.

Rich (or poor) coming from someone who wasn't working class.

His music was a reflection of society. What do you know about his upbringing?

2:56 is that the copy that John singed for that piece of shit (he shall not be named) that shot him?

a working class hero has summoned the bees

He’s no Paul McCartney 😀

Very introspective & raw as hell.bloody masterpiece John Lennon RIP gone far too soon! 🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

From "She loves you, yeah, yeah" to this...

Wow.

"Tell your so fucking crazy you can't follow the rules"

Lennon true talk 4ever man

White and black floor ,don't you know?
Thx JL .
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They give you fear, and take your soul.
You must wake up.
Your world is disappearing.

... They hurt you at home and they hit you at school...They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool...Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules...

I love you John

yeah, under feudalism over Lord
what i call fragmented sovereign nations...hehehe ..feel meh 01??

This song makes sense now mote than ever. Loved this song for 20 years.

I've loved this for, maybe 45 years, I am not sure anymore.
Listen and learn.
Our future depends upon what you do.

hey john! you don't have to imitate Dylan. we all know you're a genius in your own right.

F#@KING AWESOME

This song he tell us what is going on this earth and who runs the world.

Lennon I completely agree with you and I wanna be a hero and I will follow you. But you are no more. So how come I follow you. You could have created another song that tells us how to become a hero.

LOVE this video, the end with all the kids following John into Strawberry fields is tear-inducing. Very moving.

"Who convinced you you weren't smart, who convinced you cannot achieve, not me, not your parents, not even the two teachers who did the hardest work to get you through the toughest part of your schooling, then you blossomed, and yet still you have doubt, who instilled that in you" my Aunt to me this Spring.
I always thing about myself when I hear this song , thinking about my experience I wish John Lennon had a better educational system experience than he did, but his experience at school directly lead him to the be cocksure bold young man who became The Beatles John Lennon and tortured artist he was. It sucks but he needed that.

I Love you!💚💛🧡🖤❤️💞

Listening to this on the day Britain voted in fascism- this song never sounded more prophetic.

yea everything was just fucking peachy before. idiot

1970: this is a good song
2019:this is a cool song
2103:this is a old song

Working class hero by Lennon is genius

This is not John Lennon. You are so despicable!

My art teacher letting us bring in a CD to play a track from in 2008 had no idea what was about to hit her

For those in the north who voted Tory yesterday....

Bang on , Thick as shit

Miners will be spitting in there graves.

He was a peaceful genius. I was still very young when he was taken from us. And it still hurts to this day to know he is not still around. But He lives throughout the years through his songs and music. And inside of my heart. ✌

All his songs grow in value with time ! They get better with time just like wine 🍷! John transcended politics !

John Lennon, the greatest of them all

Miss you my dad pops David Starkey born 28 th september 1952 til October 16 th 2018 my Angel v thank you pops for the music you our missed loved still every day you were the best pops ever x x x

John WAS NOT working class.I have seen the home he lived in with his Aunt Mimi in Liverpool and by English standards it is definitely middle class.The other Beatles,mostly George and Ringo,were very working class.

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December 8, 2019 John Lennon's death is still a festering wound in our hearts.

Rest in peace ... Genio!

Rest in Power: Soldier of Life

RIP John. Today, December 8th, 2019 is the 39th anniversary of the taking of his life.

the loudest quiet on Earth occurred when John's voice was silenced forever

Some would argue that true art is timeless; therefore, the artist's voice or vision is never silenced.

@Christopher Hanson I refer as much to John's invaluable social activism as his music, poetry, and hand art

Yes, his music can still be heard today, so in that sense, John's not quiet. The "loudest quiet" that is being referred to here is that we never got to hear John's next songs or what he was thinking or creating in the years to come. He didn't get the chance to decide on his own when to stop.

R.I.P 2019 ❤

John is the best and my hero no.1 forever

Too true for the masses to fear @ johns possible perril*

Simply a masterpiece. Beautiful, sad, profound.

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Listening to this song kinda reminds me of the movie Joker.

All of those teacher's notes saying that John was unfocused and needed to grow up were real. Unlike most, this had the exact opposite effect on John. But listening to this song and seeing that puts John's standoffish attitude into perspective.