I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag

McDonald wrote the Rag in the summer of 1965 and finished it in about 30 minutes. It was first released in October 1965 as an acoustic jug-band track on the Rag Baby EP, and Pete Seeger recorded it in 1970, though that version was never officially issued. The band cut an electric version at Sierra Sound Laboratories in February 1967. Charters held it back from the debut, and it opened the second album.

McDonald said Vanguard did not want the Rag on the first record, so he made an executive decision to give the band a cheer before it. Each member shouted a letter of the word fish. In summer 1968 at the Schaefer Music Festival in New York, Hirsh suggested a different four-letter word. The band's scheduled Ed Sullivan Show appearance did not take place, and McDonald said the band was paid to stay off the show. A single of the Rag reached number one on Sweden's Tio i Topp chart in May 1969, after Vanguard reissued it in April.

On 16 August 1969, McDonald asked the Woodstock crowd for the cheer and the song, and the film kept it. A lawsuit brought by the estate of Kid Ory over the song's tune and Muskrat Ramble was dismissed in 2005. Rolling Stone readers included the song in a 2014 poll of the ten best protest songs.