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Title of song: You Hit the Nail On the Head

Artist: Funkadelic

Title of album: America Eats Its Young

Year of first release: 1972

Songwriter(s): George Clinton, Fuzzy Haskins, Bernie Worrell

Memorable Lyrics:

"Just because you win the fight/Don't make you right/Just because you give/Don't make you good"

Complete lyrics at the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-ameats#lyr-s-youhit)

This song is vaguely political, with the central lyrical thrust of the song quoted above. Essentially, though the current entrenched power-holding class may win a battle, they are still morally wrong.

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