E.Y. Harburg "Lives of Great Men"

Today Democracy Now aired a great special on Yip Harburg, but the transcript had a great many errors in it, unfortunately. They especially tortured the short poem at the very end. I listened back a few times and hope I got it right:

Lives of great men all remind us
greatness takes no easy way.
All the heroes of tomorrow
are the heretics of today.
Socrates and Galileo, John Brown,
Thoreau, Christ and Debs
heard the night cry "down with traitors!"
and the dawn shout "up the reds!"
Nothing ever seems to bust 'em.
Gallows, crosses, prison bars.
Though we try to readjust 'em,
there they are, among the stars.
Lives of great men all remind us
we can write our names on high
and departing leave behind us
thumbprints at the FBI.

Dude was quite the dissenter, apparently. I love it.