The Jack Ash Society chords by Pete Seeger

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Verse 1
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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 Ashites
from Belmont, Mass.
Have suffered a terrible fright.
They looked under their beds
and discovered
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Such reds as Al  len
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and Milton and Dwight.
If more you would know of this Jack Ash credo,
Read the blue book, the black book,
the white.
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If you do, you will find
we're all reds of some kind,
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Like Allen and Milton and Dwight.
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Joe McCarthy is dead,
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so Jack Ash instead
Leads the anti -communist fight.
U .S. Red Sea has found,
swarming all around
Some 179 million so far,
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including Allen and Milton and Dwight.
If you believe in more hospitals,
housings and schools,
New highways and civil rights.
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The Ashites will add you to the
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un -American list
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Along with Al  len and
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Milton an d Dwight.
Social Security's a Bolshevik plot
Cooked up by some shrewd Muscovite.
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So go naked, you must,
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or be a security risk
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Like Allen and Milton an d Dwight.
Beware of good pay and
the minimum wage,
It's part of the socialist blight,
Created by conspirators bold,
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Like Allen an  d Milton and
Dwight.
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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
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Of Allen and Milton an d Dwight.
These jack -ashes are drawing
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the lunatic fringe
Assembling on the right.
Barry's their man, he has no pinkish tan
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Like Al  len 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 out a subpoena
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To Al  len and Milton and White.
The Jack Ashes say that
in World War II
We should have joined
with the Third Reich.
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Adolf can pass their loyalty test,
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But not Alan or Milton or Dwight.
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They want to prepare for a nuclear war,
Kill everything human in sight.
If you'd rather live,
you're a communist dupe,
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Like Alan and Milton and Dwight.
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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,
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Like Allen and Milton an d Dwight.
Now some good songs
and a few bad ones
have a moral.
Here's the moral of this one.
Now a candy bar's sweet,
Milk chocolate's a treat,
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But ponder before you bite,
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The worms hiding in side
May shrivel your hide,
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Like Alan and Milton and Dwight.