Volunteers

Album: Volunteers (1970)
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  • Look what's happening out in the streets
    Got a revolution (got to revolution)
    Hey, I'm dancing down the streets
    Got a revolution (got to revolution)
    Oh, ain't it amazing all the people I meet?
    Got a revolution (got to revolution)
    One generation got old
    One generation got soul
    This generation got no destination to hold
    Pick up the cry
    Hey, now it's time for you and me
    Got a revolution (got to revolution)
    Hey, come on now we're marching to the sea
    Got a revolution (got to revolution)
    Who will take it from you, we will and who are we?
    Well, we are volunteers of America (volunteers of America)
    Volunteers of America (volunteers of America)
    I've got a revolution
    Got a revolution

    Look what's happening out in the streets
    Got a revolution (got to revolution)
    Hey, I'm dancing down the streets
    Got a revolution (got to revolution)
    Oh, ain't it amazing all the people I meet?
    Got a revolution, oh-oh
    We are volunteers of America
    Yeah, we are volunteers of America
    We are volunteers of America (volunteers of America)
    Volunteers of America (volunteers of America) Writer/s: Marty Balin, Paul Kantner
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 13

  • Adam from York, PaJefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship
    was the most successful multistage band of all time.
  • Jim from Des Moines, IaDid anybody else catch the irony of Balin's statment that he wrote a song calling for leftist revolution while looking out the window of his mansion? Typical liberal hypocrisy. Oh well. They were ok musicians and broke some ground, but like most leftists, when they get money the egalitarian non-materialist crap goes right out the window.
  • Dalinda from Cresskill, NjJorma and Jack are so cool. Look at them play at Altamont with the Airplane and the song "Hesitation Blues" in 1970. Do you guys think these rock star legends read this website? if so;
    You're the best Marty,Paul,Jorma,Jack and Grace.
  • David from Youngstown, OhVolunteers of America is an organization similar to the Salvation Army. Balin probably saw it on a truck, but not on a garbage one unless it was a public service announcement for the organization on the side of a garbage truck (highly unlikely). From the VOA Web site: VOA is "one the nation's largest and most comprehensive human services organizations, serving more than 2 million people each year, including at-risk youth, the frail elderly, men and women returning from prison, homeless individuals and families, people with disabilities, and those recovering from addictions."
  • Adelina from Tromso, NorwayActualy, it'a a song from 1969, not 1970. And it was performed at Woodstock.
  • Lucy from Nowhereland, TnYes, I was going to say, it's written about a Garbage Truck...
    And.. VoluntEars? How.. Creative?
  • Kyle from Loveland, CoBelieve it or not, the idea was inspired by a garbage truck. Marty Balin stated, "One morning somebody was banging the garbage cans outside my window. I looked out and it said on the truck, 'Volunteers of America.' I leaned over and wrote, "Hey, what's happening on the street, da-da-da...' Paul put some music to it, and it became kind of an anthemic thing for us. I say it's about a truck picking up some garbage and people don't believe me."
  • Fyodor from Denver, Co"Got to revolution" sounds like a larger goal than just ending US military involvement in Viet Nam (the North's victory actually ended the war). I was disappointed at how wimpy the studio version of this song is compared to the Woodstock version, which is pretty rad. Dave, are you or Jorma in the Hocking Hills region? That's some pretty country!
  • Max from Parma, OhThis song is now featured on a Tommy Hilfiger commercial. Oh, the humanity...
  • Barry from New York, NcThe Jefferson Airplane was not featured in the Woodstock movie, but in the director's cut you can see their performances of SATURURDAY AFTERNOON/WON'T YOU TRY and UNCLE SAM BLUES(featuring Jorma and Jack). Also the Airplane do OTHER SIDE OF THIS LIFE, their opening number, but it is cut short by a fadeout (an extremely poor choice in the director's cut I'd say).
  • Erik from Oc, CaThis isn't in the Woodstock movie
  • Claire from Oak Ridge, Tn"VoluntEars?" How clever! Executives of Disney, cheapeners of romance, happy-ending makers out of noting, quit with the corny puns! You can all get sick from sugar coating and bad reviews for your lousy new movies!
  • Dave from Pomeroy, OhFormer lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen now lives in Southeastern Ohio and has a camp where you can learn to play music from some of the masters in the business, It's called the Fur Peace Ranch. He alos tours with former Airplane member jack Cassady as Hot Tuna.
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