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And we just made it out of the Big Muddy With the captain dead and gone.
He's the one who, a verse earlier, challenged the captain about entering the Big Muddy in the first place.
With songs like that one and "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," an anti-Vietnam War anthem, it is easy to assume he is a pacifist.
But, for me, the central moment of the song comes midway through, when the captain has mired his men in the Big Muddy.
"Waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool says to push on," I heard Pete Seeger sing in Washington in 1967.
The song, "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," was set during the Second World War, but it was clearly about Vietnam.
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The Summer Olympics tried to tow us out of this big muddy of a year but ended up with its' wheels impotently mired in the ditch right there beside us.
The Rajneeshees had selected this spot carefully, purchasing 100 square miles of rugged Oregon rangeland for the privacy and protection the former "Big Muddy Ranch" provided.
It terminates around 6600 feet, where it becomes the source of Big Muddy Creek, a tributary of the Klickitat River.
I was told that there is a spot between the towns of Big Muddy and Ugly where you can get a close look at the pit.
Our tickets were for the infield, the area surrounded by the racetrack that turns into a big muddy party for the duration – sort of like a music festival without music but worse, if you can picture that.
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