This thread fascinates me because I bought that Paul Evans lp....where he did the song using the lyrics that songshare, guest, and Daloki quote. I always wondered about it....had never heard it before or since.

And Paul Evans wasn't really known as a 'folkie'. He was the guy who made hits of songs (written by pop writers) like 7 Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat, After the Hurricane, Happy Go Lucky Me, Show Folk, etc.

But he recorded an lp called "Folk Songs of Many Lands" (I still have a copy) that introduced me, as a youth, to many great folksongs like Passing Through (the one Leonard Cohen did many years later), Wee Cooper O'Fife, Sam Hall, and many others.

So to hear that The Bomb is an adaptation of an old anarchist song is interesting. I'm curious how that version ever got to Paul Evans.