Talk:Volunteers (song)

Lyric source for "We Can Be Together"

The following info might be worth incorporating into the article, I found it in an online piece describing the Airplane's performance of the song on The Dick Cavett Show, 8/19/69:

Kantner also cribbed some (nearly all) of the lyrics from something called “The Outlaw Page” that appeared apparently first as a leaflet and then in the East Village Other underground newspaper. “The Outlaw Page” was a polemic written by a guy called John Sundstrom, who was a member of an anarchist/Situationist-inspired Lower East Side-based “street gang with analysis” called the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers [UAW/MF] whose name came from a poem titled “Black People!” by Amiri Baraka. The Motherfuckers, whose unprintable name made them virtually press-proof, were involved with storming the Pentagon, setting up crash pads in New York City for counter culture types and the occupation of Columbia University. Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse’s stepson, Tom Neumann was an early member.

Here's a link: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/grace_slick_says_fck_on_american_tv_for_the_very_first_time_1969

The site shows a copy of the "The Outlaw Page," it does bear close resemblance to the lyrics of the song.