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Working Class Hero (4:41)

Cover of Broken English

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(John Lennon)As soon as you're born they make you feel smallBy giving you no time instead of it allTill the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

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  • Funky_Nickie

    Beautiful cover, one of the best. Love the Floydian guitar at the end.

    13 Feb 7:46pm Reply

  • Druid66

    Really harrowing stuff. Her voice is so emotive. She's amazing.

    13 May 2012 Reply

  • rainy-dog

    according to yoko, john was very fond of this.

    8 Feb 2012 Reply

  • giggleSpank

    I would've loved to party with Marianne back in the day!

    24 Feb 2011 Reply

  • d0l

    hmm. i don't think she'd have a clue about being working class. though i do love this song.

    17 Feb 2011 Reply

  • whiteboy32386

    well this is, um, interesting.

    7 Jan 2011 Reply

  • dmt111

    she got it!!

    20 Nov 2010 Reply

  • rotting_schntzl

    can't be better. it's got John written all over it. there's more than just the performance, bitch!

    9 Oct 2010 Reply

  • club-debil

    Want to fall on my knees and adore her!! Better than John's original...

    15 Sep 2010 Reply

  • zaynzaynzayn

    i remember the working class. they vanished into drug-addicted servers.

    26 Jun 2010 Reply

  • Luelleee

    green day better

    14 Jun 2010 Reply

  • Drostanxxx

    hmm, working class is a signifier - does it cease to exist if the thing it signifies changes during the life of a song? let's see, um.... shit, marianne's got a lovely smoky voice, doesn't she

    18 May 2010 Reply

  • hippiegirl1968

    only a comment - does working class exist any more? does it mean the same thing if it still exists? doubl it. mostly it involves a desire to move into the middle classes. on the track - first time I've heard it. I know 'Broken English' but that's it.

    8 May 2010 Reply

  • bicknor

    Im working class, if there is one, but Im no hero. But then, who is? Or perhaps it is metaphorical, or even metaphysical. Still, think of Mao Tse Tung,well known socialist, paedophile and and mass murderer. Crazy, along with Stalin, another mass murderer

    1 May 2010 Reply

  • Metal-Kathy86

    great!!!

    4 Apr 2010 Reply

  • sweetheart76

    Love it

    1 Apr 2010 Reply

  • AtilaElBarbaro

    Sin palabras para este genio, cuanto más madura mejor canta ¡Esto es música!

    20 Mar 2010 Reply

  • impronen

    I think her aristrocratic heritage just gives this song an interesting new angle. Great cover in all...

    25 Feb 2010 Reply

  • bicknor

    Well, applies to Mick Jagger, I suppose, and others of the RS.

    15 Feb 2010 Reply

  • Alcuinsull

    A splendid version. Her voice is wonderful, a great vehicle for carrying emotion.

    14 Feb 2010 Reply
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