I listened to the recording, and it has some significant differences with the lyrics posted above:


THOSE THREE ARE ON MY MIND
As sung by Pete Seeger on "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs" (1967)

I think of Andy in the cold wet clay.
    Those three are on my mind.
With his friends beside him on that brutal day.
    Those three are on my mind.

There lies young James in his mortal pain.
    Those three are on my mind.
So I ask those killers: can you sleep again?
    Those three are on my mind.

I see young Michael with his soft-eyed bride.
    Those three are on my mind.
And three proud mothers weeping side by side.
    Those three are on my mind.

But I grieve yet and for some the sky is bright.
I cannot give up hoping for a morning light,
So I ask those killers: can you sleep at night?
    Those three are on my mind.
    Those three are on my mind.

I see the tin-roofed shanties where my brothers live.
    Those three are on my mind.
And the burnt-out churches where they sing, "We forgive."
    Those three are on my mind.

While on the backwoods roads still ride the hooded bands,
Poisoning the air throughout the good south land.
So I ask those killers: can you ever wash your hands?
    Those three are on my mind.
    Those three are on my mind.

There sit the mighty judges handing down the law.
    Those three are on my mind.
In their marble courthouse, we are filled with awe.
    Those three are on my mind.

I know of Tom Paine's watered tree; I know the price of liberty,
But I must ask that question that still burns in me:
Did they also burn the courthouse when they killed those three?
    Those three are on my mind.
    Those three are on my mind.


[The 3 murdered civil rights workers were James Earl Chaney of Meridian, Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner of New York City, all killed on the night of June 21–22, 1964 in Nashoba County, near Meridian, Mississippi. Wikipedia]