Barry's Boys
We're the bright young men who want to go back to 1910,
We're Barry's Boys.
We're the kids with a cause: a government like Grandma's was,
We're Barry's boys.
We're the new kind of youth at your alma mater.
Back to the silver standard and solid Goldwater.
Back to when the poor were poor and rich were rich,
And you felt so damned secure just knowing which were which.
We're the folks who agree to be social without security,
we're Barry's boys.
Now his hat's in the ring, where Westbrook Pegler* once was king. Now he's too left wing.
So if you don't want to recognize that old Red China,
Or Canada, or Britain, or South Carolina,
You, too, can join the crew. Tippecanoe and Nixon, too.
Back to Barry, back to cash and carry, back to Barry's boys.The Chad Mitchell Trio, 1964*Westbrook Pegler: Right-leaning polemicist of the mid-twentieth century--a sort of Michael Savage of his day
One of the real problems with that era was all the good humor was on the left either in the song lyrics or stand up. I have all of the Tom Lehrer, Alan Sherman and Stan Freberg albums as well as The Smothers Brothers. Some of their stuff is rich, better than what passes for humor today and groups like Chad Mitchell Trio, Kingston Trio, Highway Men, Brothers Four, New Christie Minstrels could play instruments, write music with lyrics you could understand and harmonize. I think I'll still commit myself.