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ROFLMAO - Oh Nooooooo Peter Paul and Puff the magic dragon!!

Oh, the song was HORRIBLE!! Lists all these people like Ghadi and such and the refrain is "Have you been to jail for justice, then you're a friend of mine."

I bet those lyrics are somewhere. I am going to go find them. I wish someone else had seen it...it was truly awful!

HA! I knew I would find them! It is a song by someone named Anne Feeney.

Now was it Cesar Chavez, maybe it was Dorothy Day
Some will say that Dr. King and Gandhi set them on their way
No matter who your mentors are
It's pretty plain to see
If you've been to jail for justice
You're in good company

Have you been to jail for justice?
I wanna shake your hand
For sittin' in and lyin' down
are ways to take a stand
Have you sung a song for freedom
or marched that picket line?
Have you been to jail for justice?
Oh you're a friend of mine!

You law abiding citizens
listen to my song
Laws were made by people
and people can be wrong
Once unions were against the law
but slavery was fine
Women were denied the vote
and children worked the mines
The more you study history
the less you can deny it
A rotten law stays on the books
til folks with guts defy it!

Have you been to jail for justice?
I wanna shake your hand
For sittin' in and lyin' down
are ways to take a stand
Have you sung a song for freedom
or marched that picket line?
Have you been to jail for justice?
Have you been to jail for justice?
Would you go to jail for justice?
Oh you're a friend of mine!

Horrifying, isn't it?

C'mon you guys! PP&M's music was some of the best folk music we've ever had - except for their anti-war songs. Take a look at their early songs - many were very Christian and some were very patriotic - others, like the Garden Song were simply fun to work with. Stookey's Marriage Song ("He is now to be among us...") is still one of the best, too. And truth be told, most of us agree with the desires expressed in the anti-war rhetoric, but unlike them, we realize that it is fallacy to expect imperfect human beings to ever attain such a state.

They were very good artists - but I wouldn't want a Dali or Escher painting on the front of the White House.

All the rest of your comments about not wanting them anywhere near the WH and not wanting to relive the '60s I wholeheartedly agree with.