Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues

Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues - Bob Dylan

Lyrics by：Robert Allen Zimmerman

Composed by：Robert Allen Zimmerman

Well I was feeling sad and kinda blue

I didn't know what in the world I wus gonna do

Them communists they was coming around

They was in the air

They was on the ground

They wouldn't give me no peace

So I run down most hurriedly

And joined up with the John Birch Society

I got me a secret membership card

And started off a-walking 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 woos looking everywhere for them gol-darned reds

I got up in the morning and looked under my bed

Looked in the kitchen behind the door

Looked in the glove compartment of my car

Couldn't find them

I woos looking for them reds everywhere

Looking in the so for underneath the chair

I looked up my chimney hole

I even looked down deep inside my toilet bowl

They got away

I woos sitting home alone and started to sweat

Figured they woos in my TV set

Peeked behind the picture frame

Got a shock from my feet hitting 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 woos red stripes on the American flag

That old Betsy Ross

I investigated all the books in the library

Ninety percent of them gotta be burned away

I investigated all the people that I know

Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go

Other two percent are fellow Birchers just like me

Belly faire

Now Eisenhower he's a Russian spy

Lincoln Jefferson 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 because he picketed the movie Exodus

Well I finally started thinking straight

When I run out of things to investigate

Couldn't imagine doing anything else

So now I'm home investigating myself

Hope I don't find out anything great God