Plow Under (original - Mix)

: The official line of the American left flipped instantly from isolationism to a fierce demand for American intervention to defeat fascism.

: To avoid hypocrisy and align with the new reality, The Almanac Singers and their associates physically raced to record shops to pull Songs for John Doe from the shelves. They even asked people who bought the records to return them.

The central hook of "Plow Under" relies on a biting, satirical agricultural metaphor: Plow Under (Original Mix)

: The Almanac Singers—which featured legendary folk artists like Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Millard Lampell—were deeply tied to left-wing causes, labor unions, and the Popular Front. Dutifully aligning with the political shift, they wrote a series of songs protesting the war. 2. Analyzing the Song's Metaphor

The "AAA" referenced in the lyrics is the Agricultural Adjustment Act, a major New Deal program introduced by the Roosevelt administration to combat the Great Depression. To raise the plummeting prices of crops and livestock, the government paid farmers to reduce supply, which famously resulted in the slaughter of millions of pigs and the plowing under of vast fields of cotton. The Human Cost : The official line of the American left

: By 1942, the group was recording fiercely pro-war, anti-fascist songs supporting the Allied war effort on their album Dear Mr. President .

"Remember when the AAA, Killed a million hogs a day? Instead of hogs it's men today, Plow the fourth one under." The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) The central hook of "Plow Under" relies on

: In August 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact.