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Jack Warshaw is an American folksinger, songwriter and musician, best known for his 1976 protest song "If They Come in the Morning," aka "No Time for Love." He moved to England in 1965 to start a career as an architect but stayed because the folk music scene and the Vietnam War intervened.
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- ↑ Seeger, Peggy (September 2009). The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook. Minnesota, USA: Loomis House Press. p. 76. ISBN 9781935243120.
