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Kent State songs: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrummer/vietnam_war__kent___jackson_state_songs/
A collection of Vietnam War songs by Barbara Dane and GI's, called "FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance" (1970). It included the song "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" - this was a response to Nixon's comment on 30 April 1970 (just before the Kent State shooting) when he spoke at the Pentagon, saying "you see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses". The Washington Post ran the headline "Nixon denounces campus 'bums' who burn books", while the New York Times declared that "Nixon puts 'bums' label on some college radicals". A father of one of those killed at Kent State later told a reporter that "My child was not a bum".

"Oh bums of the earth, you've got nothing to loose
But the chains and the tear gas, the Dick Nixon blues
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, hallelujah, who are you?...
When he first called us bums, didn't know what he meant
But the guards defined it on the campus at Kent...
Well power corrupts, we know that by heart
But you got to admit Nixon had a head start...
Well, some say his name Is slippery Dick
Well I guess he is no bum, be he sure is some (dick)"