Chords Add: John Birch Society

Subject: RE: Chords Add: John Birch Society
From: Vicar
Date: 17 Aug 08 - 04:47 PM

Credit should also go to Michael Brown for writing our first "satire" "Lizzie Borden" and for the lyrics to "The George Bush Society" currently on You Tube. He's been one of the best writers of this materiel since "New Faces Of 1952". Thanks, Michael.

                                                                                                                      Joe Frazier
                                                                                                                      Chad Mitchell Trio

Subject: RE: Chords Add: John Birch Society
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 08 Nov 05 - 12:24 AM

Credit should be given to the author, Michael Brown.

Subject: RE: Chords Add: John Birch Society
From: Mark Ross
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 03:23 PM

Actually, MCA stands for MUSIC CORPORATION of AMERICA, one of the biggest conglomerates controlling the biz.

Mark Ross

Subject: Chords Add: John Birch Society
From: chico
Date: 03 Nov 05 - 04:45 AM

            C                           F                 C
  Oh we're meeting at the courthouse at eight o'clock tonight
       F        C       F        C         G                7
  You just come in the door and take the first turn to the right
      Am              (C)              Am            C
  Be careful when you get there, we'd hate to be bereft
             F                C            G7           C
  But we're taking down the names of everybody turning left
  
          F#°  G°   G            7          C               7
  'Cause we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
   G                  7             C
  Here to save this country from a communistic plot
   7         G            7      E7                Am
  We're the John Birch Society, help us swell the ranks
      F                 C                G7                 C
  To get this movement started, we need lots of tools and cranks
  
  Now there's no one that's certain that the Kremlin doesn't touch
  We think that Westbrook Pegler doth protest a bit too much
  We only hail the hero from whom we got our name
  We're not sure what he did, but he's our hero all the same
  
  Join the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
  Socialism is the ism dismalist of all
  Join the John Birch Society, there's so much to do
  Have you heard they're serving vodka at the W.C.T.U.
  
  Well you've heard about the agents that we've already named
  Well M.C.A. has agents that are flatly unashamed
  We're after Rosie Clooney, we've gotten Pinky Lee
  And the day we get Red Skelton won't that be a victory
  
  For we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
  Norman Vincent Peale may think he's kidding us along
  But the John Birch Society knows he spilled the beans
  He keeps on preaching brotherhood, but we know what he means
  
  We'll teach you how to spot 'em in the city or the sticks
  'Cause even Jasper Junction is just full of Bolsheviks
  The CIA's subversive and so's the FCC
  There's no one left but thee and we, and we're not sure of thee
  
  Oh we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
  Here to save our country from a Communistic plot
  Join the John Birch Society, holding off the Reds
  We'll use our hands and hearts, and if we must, we'll use our heads
  
  BRIDGE: (O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain)
  
  "Friends, do you want Justice Warren to be your Commissar?
  Do you want Mrs. Khrushchev in there with the DAR?
  You cannot trust your neighbors, or even next-of-kin
  If mommy is a Commie then you gotta turn her in"
  
  To the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
  Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the right
  Join the John Birch Society, as we're marching on
  We'll all be glad to see you when we're meeting in the John
  In the John, In the John Birch Society
  

[The songbook states that some Bircher's used the song themselves, and saw it in a positive light. WCTU, Woman's Christian Temperance Union. MCA hollywood union connected with communism.]