The Jack Ash Society Pete Seeger

This song really should be prefaced with the observation of a newspaper editor I met once. He said, "The John Birch Society really should be called the Jack Ash Society!"

A bunch of Jack Ash-ites from Belmont, 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 wе're all Reds of some kind
Likе 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
(Some 179 million so far!)
Including Allen and Milton and Dwight

If you believe in more hospitals, housing, and schools
New highways and civil rights
The Ash-ites 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 Muscovite
So go naked you must or be a security risk
Like Allen and Milton and Dwight