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** And lest you think Dylan was just another hyper-serious protest singer, he also wrote some of the most hilarious protest songs ever written. Check out "Talkin' WWIII Blues" or "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues".
*** "My Back Pages" was specifically written to disown his earnest protest singing past.
* "
** Parodied, in a protesting-the-protesters [[Take That]] move, as "The Universal Coward" by Jan Berry of [[Jan and Dean]] fame. (Dean Torrence objected and did not participate.) "The Universal Coward" is almost unknown in the early-21st century, while "
** Also by Sainte-Marie, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", covered by the [[Indigo Girls]].
** Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote and sang so many protest songs ("Universal Soldier", "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", "The Big Ones Get Away", "Working for the Government", and more) that somebody put her on a blacklist in the mid-1970s.
* "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire.
** Answered with "Dawn of Correction" by The Spokesmen.
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