This song was written by Bill Steele in 1969 and has been performed by Pete Seeger countless times since, some of the lyrics toward the end here were written by Pete. Showing uncanny prescience for its time (although many people ten years ahead of me during that time seem to just know that it was true) , the song’s theme and the reality it conveys is obviously more and more revelatory each days that passes by.

It is a song that reveals what we could have done and should have done 41 years ago , which was to stop the madness. No one knows today whether what we are starting on in at least some enlightened places in the world which are some projects designed to fix the problems are too little too late — although virtually all the Republicans and too many Democrats seem hell bent to keep the madness going until what the song prognosticates comes to pass.