There is another "let's march across Palestine killing and thieving and call it peace and progress" song in the Sing Out Hootenanny Song Book (1963, I think): Road to Eilat. I was pretty horrified to see it there and equally shocked to see that Pete Seeger had a significant part in editing it.

I can't imagine ever hearing songs like this on the folk scene - I'd guess that now, they'd occupy the same twilight zone as Orange songs about wading through Fenian blood or the worst products of the minstrel shows. But it seems they were considered singable by at least some American folkies once.

When did they start being sung on the folk scene? And when did they stop?

And what on earth did Seeger think he was doing?

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See Road to Eilat (click). -Joe Offer-