There was some hippie lady who came to school occasionally with her hippie guitar and sang 'One Tin Soldier' and made the little girls cry after explaining the lyrics. She looked just like Lorraine Newman and treated us kids to all sorts of folk music crap about racial injustice in the South and all the rest of the songs that Woodie Guthrie cranked out. 'Una Paloma Blanco' and all that crap.
She was best friends with my third grade teacher who was ultra liberal and forbade the boys from talking about the TV show 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' on Wednesday morning because it was 'violent discussion'. She was a real twit. One weekend, she invited the whole class to visit her house to walk around her garden. For whatever reason, she got into an argument with her husband out of earshot while us kids were walking around looking at her weeds and flowers with a few of our parents in tow. I don't recall knowing what it was about, but that was the end of the visit to her house.
She made some sort of apology to our class the next Monday morning at school... but what did we know? We were third graders and didn't understand a whole lot.
I think she was into Joan Baez garbage.
She tried to explain the inner meaning of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita or maybe In The Year 2525.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1388
It was some horrific and cheezy song from the era. Most American bands from that era were a major fail except maybe The Byrds.
It is weird but I still remember it and I must have been a clever kid because at the time - I realized how laughable it was and how pathetic she was. I only wish I had had the prescience of mind to tell her that “Vietnam was JFK & LBJ's war.”
I think if I had been a little kid in that group with the Obama song - I would have told the teacher that it was foolish. I was a conservative at age 7.
he didn’t want you kids finding his cannabis plants.