We have of course the Pete Seeger and a sample or a paid track download through Smithsonian:

http://www.folkways.si.edu/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=25061
FW31018_205
Wimoweh and Other Songs of Freedom and Protest
What a Friend We Have in Congress
Pete Seeger
Duration - 1:58
Liner Notes - Side Two Track 5 "Saterizes the brutal destructiveness of war and "the people at the top" who wage it with such "efficency" - with everything to be paid for "bay and by." Paterned after the old gospel song "WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS."

We have an interesting notation in a campus newspaper:
Hymn For Lyndon
by REV. ALAN JACKSON
Modern Hymn, to be sung to the tune: "What A Friend We Have In Jesus":
THE UBYSSEY, Vancouver, B.C., Friday, November 26, 1965 Page 10.
University of Britiish Columbia
www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/ubyssey/UBYSSEY_1965_11_26.pdf

And:
EXCELLENT ! ! ! - We have a GREAT - Free MP3 recording by the Cincinnati Dancing Pigs Jug Band
................cincinnatidancingpigs.com/concerts/What%20A%20Friend%20We%20Have%20In%20Congress.mp3

What a friend we have in congress
Who will guard our every shore
Spend three quarters of our taxes
Getting ready for the war .

Guns will make our coastline bristle
And we have (need) to fill the skies
Full of planes and missles
They'll be paid for by and by.

Have you noticed all the progress
In our mighty airborn fleet?
By the time a plane's adopted
It's already obsolete.

Modern bombs are sure to carry
Loads of glory, joy and thrills,
What a privilege to bury
All the death our money kills.

There's no factory profit brothers
And we have to do or die
One improvement then another
They'll be paid for by and by.

Never mind the widows weeping
Disregard the orphen's cries
When God wakes the dead and sleeping
They'll be paid for by and by.

Note Seeger sings "have" and Pigs sing "need" in stanza two line two.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

It was Dick Greenhaus's observation October 20, 2000 of Everett Dirkson that led me on the quest. (I once did a rhetorical analysis of Dirkson - in the 1960's he was considered the most poswerful speaker in congress....and thought ah-ha ! ! ! "Congressional Record" - but that was a no go.)