image of god with four fingers pointed straight at me. come on, boy, go thou across the ground. go moan for man. go moan. go groan. go groan alone. go roll your bones alone. >> jack kerouac became like a godfather for the counterculture. >> the village has a life and language all its own. if you dig it, you're hip. if you don't, man, you're square. coffee houses, the neighborhood bars of bohemia. where the strongest potion is coffee, and the coffeehouse poet is the specialty of the house. >> to find a place where the eyes can rest -- >> beatniks, they had these coffeehouses they would go in and play chess and read poetry, and those same coffeehouses became kind of a proving ground for folk singers. >> and all the young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ standing down in new york town one day ♪ >> folk music, it gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does.