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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 Almanac Singers weaponized this New Deal memory to attack the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (the peacetime draft). They argued that just as the government callously destroyed every fourth row of crops to stabilize the economy, it was now preparing to sacrifice every fourth American young man to feed the military-industrial complex. 3. Examining the Drastic Shift and Legacy Plow Under (Original Mix)

The central hook of "Plow Under" relies on a biting, satirical agricultural metaphor: The "AAA" referenced in the lyrics is the

: 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. They argued that just as the government callously

: On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany broke the pact and invaded the Soviet Union.

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