What a Friend We Have in Congress: Pete Seeger 'Hymn', to be sung to the tune: What A Friend We Have In Jesus

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Wimoweh and Other Songs of Freedom and Protest
"What a Friend We Have in Congress"
Pete Seeger
Duration - 1:58
Liner Notes - Side Two Track 5 "Saterizes the brutal destructiveness of war and "the people at the top" who wage it with such "efficency" - with everything to be paid for "bay and by." Paterned after the old gospel song "WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS."


Modern Hymn, to be sung to the tune: "What A Friend We Have In Jesus"



What a friend we have in congress
Who will guard our every shore
Spend three quarters of our taxes
Getting ready for the war .

Guns will make our coastline bristle
And we have to fill the skies
Full of planes and guided missiles
They'll be paid for by and by.

Have you noticed all the progress
In our mighty airborne fleet?
By the time a plane's adopted
It's already obsolete.

Modern bombs are sure to carry
Loads of glory, joy and thrills,
What a privilege to bury
All the death our money kills.

There's no factory profit brothers
And we have to do or die
One improvement then another
They'll be paid for by and by.

Never mind the widows weeping
Disregard the orphen's cries
When God wakes the dead and sleeping
They'll be paid for by and by.