“Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land

And don’t criticize

What you can’t understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin’.

Please get out of the new one

If you can’t lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin’.”

Question

Explain how music and fashion expressed the ideals of the 1960s counterculture and describe their effect on mainstream American culture. How do the lyrics above reflect the changing values of the time?