[buckalfa]

I am sorry, that America passed on in January 1989

[Fiji Hill]

Pete [Seeger]: “I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I’m looking at God.”

Did he really say that? Marxist-Leninists are atheists.

[Fiji Hill]

When the Hitler-Stalin pact was in force, Pete Seeger was a pacifist, opposing US efforts to prepare for war. When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Pete turned on a dime and became a flaming war monger. His party line shift is reflected in these two recordings.

Plow Under--The Almanac Singers (1941)
Inspired by a 1941 speech by Sen. Burton K. Wheeler (D-Mont.)

The Sinking of the Reuben James--The AlmanacSingers (1942)