Song of the Day 11/13: John Lennon, “Gimme Some Truth”

John Lennon saw through Republican politics before Watergate ever happened. This track from his “Imagine” album, released in 1971, finds him spitting fire about a lying government (mostly, at the time, about the war in Vietnam). I think it should be the theme song of the Trump impeachment hearings, used on every TV fadeout and fadein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10YeFhYGVJU

The song has been covered by lots of people over the years, from Generation X in the punk era…

…to Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs on “Under the Covers, Vol. 2.”