In honor of our current need to find that Yemeni man, I’m posting Bob Dylan’s Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues: Well, I was feelin’ sad and feelin’ blue, I didn’t know what in the world I wus gonna do.
Them communists they wus comin’ around, They wus in the air, They wus on the ground.
They wouldn’t give me no peace…
So I run down most hurriedly And joined the John Birch Society. I got me a secret membership card And started off a-walkin’ down the road.
Yee-hoo, I’m a real John Bircher now!
Look out you Commies!
Now we all agree with Hitler’s views, Although he killed six million Jews.
It don’t matter too much that he was a Fascist, At least you can’t say he was a Communist!
That’s to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of Malaria.
Well, I wus lookin’ everywhere for them gol-darned Reds. I got up in the mornin’ ‘n’ looked under my bed, Looked in the sink, behind the door, Looked in the glove compartment of my car.
Couldn’t find ‘em … I wus lookin’ high an’ low for them Reds everywhere, I wus lookin’ in the sink an’ underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep down inside my toilet bowl.
They got away …
Well, I wus sittin’ home alone an’ started to sweat, Figured they wus in my T.V. set.
Peeked behind the picture frame, Got a shock from my feet, hittin’ right up in the brain.
Them Reds caused it! I know they did … them hard-core ones.
Well, I quit my job so I could work all alone, Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes.
Followed some clues from my detective bag And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag!
That ol’ Betsey Ross …
Well, I investigated all the books in the library, Ninety percent of ‘em gotta be burned away. I investigated all the people that I knowed.
Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go.
The other two percent are fellow Birchers … just like me.
Now Eisenhower, he’s a Russian Spy, Lincoln, Jeffereson and that Roosevelt guy.
To my knowledge there’s just one man That’s really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell. I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus.
Well, I fin’ly started thinking straight When I run outa things to investigate.
Couldn’t imagine doin’ anything else, So now I’m sittin’ home investigatin’ myself!
Hope I don’t find out anything … hmm, great God!
Taken, without permission, from Lyrics, 1962-1985