Sandy,

Pete Seeger sang the song "There Are Mean Things Happenin' In This Land" on his American Industrial Ballads LP on Folkways. A year after after John Kennedy was assassinated, I wrote this to that tune while in D.C. the summer of '64--Joe Hickerson's first year at the Library of Congress:

There are mean things happenin" in this land,
There are mean things happenin' in this land,
When the president gets shot down with his bodyguards standing 'round,
There are mean things happenin' in this land.

It was down in Dallas on that fateful day,
I thought I heard Mr. Kennedy say,
Yankee, Russian --- white or tan, hell, a man is just a man,
There are mean things happinin' in this land.

...you could hear the nation cry on the day the president died,
There are mean things happenin' in this land.

...You can hear the children moan -- no father coming home,
There are mean things happenin' in this land.

...His wife all covered with his blood in answer for her love,
There are mean things happenin' in this land.

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