Two broadsheet songs: 'Oh, Brother, did you weep?' (words and music by MacColl, illustration by Audrey Seyfang) and 'Yankee Doodle' (words by MacColl, and illustration by 'Catchpole').
Excessively scarce survivals, with no copies of either item appearing on COPAC or WorldCat. Both are printed on one side of a leaf roughly 25 x 20 cm. In fair condition, with light creasing to extremities. Item One (on grey paper, with illustration by Audrey Seyfang): 'Oh, Brother, did you weep? | words and music by Ewan MacColl'. Four verses, the first reading: 'Disc of sun in the belching smoke, | Blazing huts where children choke, | Burning flesh and blackened blood, | Charred and blistered like smould'ring wood.' Item Two (on grey paper, with illustration by 'Catchpole'): 'YANKEE DOODLE | words: Ewan MacColl'. Nine verses, the first reading '1. Yankee Doodle came to town, | H-bombs in his pocket, | Says, "Chum, if you don't toe the line: | I'll blast you with a rocket!" | Chorus: YANKEE DOODLE, UNCLE SAM, | BATMAN, ALSO SUPERMAN, | KNOWN FROM HERE TO VIET-NAM | AS YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.' Concludes, with reference to the British prime minister of the time, 'And as he kills, dear Mr. Wilson | Murmurs little speeches.' According to Karl Dallas (Morning Star, 16 November 2007) it was he who 'first mooted the idea' of an anti-Vietnam War 'campaign in the folk scene', with the 'singers' group' being formed by Dallas in conjunction with Ewan MacColl and Gordon McCulloch.