Is there anything more absurd than Pete Seeger singing "Stagolee"? Like he was a "bad man"? It's like listening to Kermit the Frog croon the works of G.G. Allin.
(Nearly said "the hits of G.G. Allin" –– which would have been a paradoxical remark.)
Pete Seeger is, I believe, more in his "natural comfort zone" or (to choose another cliché) his "wheelhouse" when he is channeling the little rooster "who went cock-a-doodle-doo-dee-doodle-dee-doo" on "I Had a Rooster."
"Pete Seeger was a moral simpleton." –– GARY SNYDER.
"I mean by that that he was a rookie about the foggy and tortuous and subtile complexities of human morality –– not that he was a highly ethical moron." –– GARY SNYDER.
"He wasn't." –– GARY SNYDER.
"Not that he was immoral." –– GARY SNYDER.
"He wasn't that either." –– GARY SNYDER.
"Just that he was a moron." –– GARY SNYDER.
"We both married Japanese women, but what of that." –– GARY SNYDER.
"Lots of men like Japanese women." –– GARY SNYDER.
"It's not all that unusual." –– GARY SNYDER.
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