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June 27, 2018 8:37 pm Update

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I guess I didn’t discover Malvina Reynolds, as she used to be a lot on WRPI but I re-discovered her today and I’m getting a lot of enjoyment from her music. 📻Like many of the folk musicians of the era, she’s pretends to be a very subversive grandmother. ☢Not offensive or vulgar, just very subversive. And I like subversive people and subversive ideas.👵

Draft Dodger Rag – YouTube

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Oh, I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town
I believe in God and Senator Dodd and a-keepin' old Castro down
And when it came my time to serve I knew "better dead than red"
But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:

Sarge, I'm only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen
And I always carry a purse
I got eyes like a bat, and my feet are flat, and my asthma's getting worse
Yes, think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old invalid aunt
Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm a-goin' to school
And I'm working in a DEE-fense plant

Phil Ochs – Another Age

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"Soldiers have their sorrow
The wretched have their rage
Pray for the aged
It's the dawn of another age
Of another age
Of another age"

"Thomas Paine and Jesse James are old friends
And Robin Hood is riding on the road again
We were born in a revolution and we died in a wasted war
It's gone that way before"

"The dogs are chasing chicken bones across the lawn
If that was an election, I'm a Viet Cong
So I pledge allegiance against the flag
And the flaw for which it stands
I'll raise it if I can"