Beans in My Ears
1966 · CBS 62751 · USA
- Artist
- Pete Seeger
- Title
- Beans in My Ears
- Release
- Dangerous Songs!?
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- CBS # 62751
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Pete Seeger
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "Beans in My Ears", also on Dangerous Songs!? (CBS # 62751) - originally written by Len Chandler - member of the The Broadside Singers, and one of the magazine's editors. It appeared in volume # 45. Seeger added a verse at the end, to criticize President Lyndon B. Johnson, with a play on words, saying that "Alby Jay" (i.e. LBJ) had beans in his ear, and wouldn't listen to anyone about the war in Vietnam. He noted in the song with a spoken word section:"Course you know this is just like an old folk song, you can change around the words, it's what I call a zipper song, you can zip into it the names of anyone you want, your family, your friends, Mrs. Jay's little son Alby, hey Alby Jay [LBJ], you got beans in your ears"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born 3 May 1919 in Manhattan, New York, USA, died on 27 January 2014, same location