I ran across this thread this afternoon when i was doing a few lyric searches on the DT, several of them successful, but one--for "Pass Me Not O Blessed Savior"--unsuccessful, but it led me to "Palace of the Czar (Shootin' with Rasputin)," a title I had to check out. The song ends with a reference to the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, and so is linked to a few other threads that touch the subject of HUAC (or as they insisted on being called, HCUA, for obvious reasons), and I finally came to this one, the kind of thread that fostered the Mudcat Jones that strung me out for four or five years.

Back in the day, as they say, there were no links to threads from the songs in the DT--what a great addition to the service. I can easily see getting hooked all over again. Maybe it will help me break free of my current computer Joneses, jigsaw puzzles and Super Collapse.

One of the other threads, about music in response to HUAC, reminded me of this song which I think is in a book I have, __Outrateous Songs__ or something like that:

H-U-A-C
H-U-A-C
What a lucky thing it is for you and me
Our security is guarded by politically retarded
Men of unimpeachable integrity

That's the chorus. If I can find the book, I'll add some verses.


--seed