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Thread #150868 Message #3517740
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-May-13 - 04:50 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Talkin' Songs (Bob Dylan, PP&M and...)
Subject: ADD: Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues (Bob Dylan)
Hi - be sure to take a look at the crosslinks I added at the top of this thread. It looks like we have all the songs listed in the first post except "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" by Bob Dylan.
Guess we'd better fix that.
TALKIN' JOHN BIRCH PARANOID BLUES (Bob Dylan)
Well, I was feelin' sad and feelin' blue I didn't know what in the world I wus gonna do Them Communists they wus comin' around They wus in the air They wus on the ground They wouldn't gimme no peace . . .
So I run down most hurriedly And joined up with the John Birch Society I got me a secret membership card And started off a-walkin' down the road Yee-hoo, I'm a real John Bircher now! Look out you Commies!
Now we all agree with Hitler's views Although he killed six million Jews It don't matter too much that he was a Fascist At least you can't say he was a Communist! That's to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of malaria
Well, I wus lookin' everywhere for them gol-darned Reds I got up in the mornin' 'n' looked under my bed Looked in the sink, behind the door Looked in the glove compartment of my car Couldn't find 'em . . .
I wus lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere I wus lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair I looked way up my chimney hole I even looked deep down inside my toilet bowl They got away . . .
Well, I wus sittin' home alone an' started to sweat Figured they wus in my T.V. set Peeked behind the picture frame Got a shock from my feet, hittin' right up in the brain Them Reds caused it! I know they did . . . them hard-core ones
Well, I quit my job so I could work all alone Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes Followed some clues from my detective bag And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag! That ol' Betsy Ross . . .
Well, I investigated all the books in the library Ninety percent of 'em gotta be burned away I investigated all the people that I knowed Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go The other two percent are fellow Birchers . . . just like me
Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy To my knowledge there's just one man That's really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus
Well, I fin'ly started thinkin' straight When I run outa things to investigate Couldn't imagine doin' anything else So now I'm sittin' home investigatin' myself! Hope I don't find out anything . . . hmm, great God!