C,S,N&Y – Almost Cut my Hair
Although the notion of long hair as a „freak flag“ appeared earlier, notably in a 1967 Jimi Hendrix song „If 6 Was 9“, Crosby’s song has been credited with popularizing the idea of long hair as a deliberate and visible symbol of the wearer’s affiliation with the counterculture, and opposition to establishment values. The song also evokes the singer’s „paranoia“ at seeing the police; James Perone writes that, „more than any other song of the entire era“, it „captures the extent to which the divisiveness in American society … had boiled over into violence and terror“.
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Well, he puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks Contre la guerre