Robert Welch, founder and chief factotum (read
"Fuehrer") of the John Birch Society, believes that
American life is dominated by Communists. He is
supposed to have called former President Eisenhower
a card-carrying Communist, although there seems
to be some dispute about whether he actually said
"card-carrying . " He has also accused Allen Dulles,
formed head of CIA and Milton Eisenhower of being
members of the Communist Underground.
A radio commentator suggested recently that "Jack Ash" might
be a more suitable title for the John Birch Society.

THE JACK ASH SOCIETY
(Mary Brooks)

A bunch of Jack-Ashites from Bella, Mt. Mass. have suffered a terrible fright
They looked under their beds and discovered such Reds as Allen and Milton and Dwight
If more you would know of this Jack-Ash credo see the blue book, the black book, the white,
If you do you will find we're all Reds of some kind, like Allen and Milton and Dwight.

Joe McCarthy is dead so Jack Ash instead leads the anti-Communist fight
U.S. Reds he has found swarming all around (170 million so far) including Allen and Milton and Dwight.
If you believe in more hospitals housing and schools new highways and civil rights
The Ashites will add you to the un-American list along with Allen and Milton and Dwight.

Social Security's a Bolshevik plot cooked up by some shrewd Moscovite
So go naked you must or be security-risk like Allen and Milton and Dwight.
Beware of good pay and the minimum wage, it's part of the Socialist blight
Created by conspirators bold like Allen and Milton and Dwight.

Unemployment insurance is another Red trick that slipped by in the dark of the night
So send back your checks lest you share their fate of Allen and Milton and Dwight.
These Jack-Ashes are drawing the lunatic fringe assembling on the right
Barry's their man he has no pinkish tan like Allen and Milton and Dwight.

There's a man sitting on the Un-American Committee, he's a Jack-Ash Society-ite
I wonder what day he will send a subpoena to Allen and Milton and Dwight.
The Jack-Ashes say that in World War II we should have joined with the 3rd Reich
Adolph can pass their loyalty test, but not Allen and Milton and Dwight.

They want to prepare for a nuclear war, kill everything human in sight,
And if you'd rather live, you're a Communist dupe, like Allen and Milton and Dwight.
So all the Jack-Ashes should take some advice, wake up and start seeing the light,
Their Fuhrer may find they are Red agents too, like Allen and Milton and Dwight.

Now a candy bar's sweet, milk chocolate's a treat but ponder before you bite,
The worms hiding inside may shrivel your insides like Allen and Milton and Dwight.

(c) 1961 by stormking Music Inc.


From the notes from the Pete Seeger Folkways album, Gazette, Vol. 2.