Jan uden Dean.

Jan Berry, den ene halvdel, af surfpop-duoen Jan & Dean, udsendte i 1965 singlepladen ’The Universal Coward’. Nummeret var en respons til Buffy Sainte-Marie’s protestsang ’The Universal Soldier’ fra 1964. Det var dog først, da Donovan’s version fra året efter hittede, at Jan Berry gik til genmæle med den patriotiske fane højt hævet. Jan’s partner, Dean Torrence, ville hverken medvirke eller på nogen måde have sit navn omtalt i forbindelse med ’The Universal Coward’.

”He’s young, he’s old, he’s in between
And he's so very much confused
He’ll scrounge around and protest all day long
He joins the pickets at Berkeley, and he burns up his draft card
And he's twisted into thinking that fighting is all wrong

He's a pacifist, an extremist, a Communist or just a Yank
A demonstrator, an agitator, or just a knave
A conscientious objector, a fanatic, a defector
And he doesn't know he's digging his own grave

Oh, he just can't get it through his thick skull
Why the mighty USA
Has got to be a watchdog of the world
He'll see the USSR bury us from afar
And he'll never see the missiles being heard

He's the universal coward, and he runs from anything
From a giant, from a human, from an elf
He runs from Uncle Sam, and he runs from Vietnam
But most of all he's running from himself”

© Jan Berry, Jill Gibbon & George Tipton