by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

And the night comes again to the circle studded sky The stars settle slowly, in loneliness they lie 'Til the Universe explodes as a falling star is raised Planets are paralyzed, mountains are amazed B

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Oh, look outside the window There's a woman being grabbed They've dragged her to the bushes And now she's being stabbed Maybe we should call the cops And try to stop the pain But Monopoly is so much

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Oh, I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town I believe in God and Senator Dodd and a-keepin' old Castro down And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red But when

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

I cried when they shot Medgar Evers Tears ran down my spine I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy As though I'd lost a father of mine But Malcolm X got what was coming He got what he asked for this time

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Silent soldiers on a silver screen Framed in fantasies and dragged in dream Unpaid actors of the mystery The mad director knows that freedom will not make you free And what's this got to do with me I

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Come you ranks of labor, come you union core And see if you remember the struggles of before When you were standing helpless on the outside of the door And you started building links on the chain, on

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Who's that coming down the road A sailor from the sea He looks a lot like me I'd know him anywhere, had to stare Feathers at his fingertips A halo 'round his spine He must have lost his mind He shoul

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells What a world of merriment Their melody foretells How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of night All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystallin

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Come and take a walk with me through this green and growing land Walk through the meadows and the mountains and the sand Walk through the valleys and the rivers and the plains Walk through the sun and

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

And the ship sets the sail They've lived the tale To carry to the shore Straining at the oars Or staring from the rail And the sea bids farewell She waves in swells And sends them on their way Time h

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Jackson, Mississippi is a mighty white town The white folks, they like to keep the black folks down They think they'll be alright but there's gonna be a fight And they'll have to share that freedom cr

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

In the heat of the summer When the pavements were burning The soul of a city was ravaged in the night After the city sun was sinkin' Now no one knows how it started Why the windows were shattered Bu

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Here's to the State of Mississippi For underneath her borders, the devil draws no lines If you drag her muddy river, nameless bodies you will find Whoa the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Have you seen the iron lady's charms Legs of steel, leather on her arms Takin' on a man to die A life for a life, an eye for an eye And that's the iron lady in the chair Stop the murder, deter the cr

by Phil Ochs on album On My Way

I'll sing you a song about a southern town where the devil had his rule When marshalls faced an angry mob to send one man to school His name was Jimmy Meredith the tide he helped to turn For he c

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

The days grow longer for smaller prizes I feel a stranger to all surprises You can have them I don't want them I wear a different kind of garment In my rehearsals for retirement The lights are cold a

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Don't you think it's time that we were leaving? For another chance, another place to start Desperate ones that went across the ocean And they wondered how it would all turn out If you have to beg or s

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

In many a time, in many a land With many a gun in many a hand They came by the night, they came by the day Came with their guns to take us away With a knock on the door, knock on the door Here they c

by Phil Ochs on album On My Way

In the state of colorado In the year of seventy-four They crossed the san juan mountains Growing hungry to the core. Their guide was alferd packer And they trusted him too long: For his character was

by Phil Ochs on album Miscellaneous

Is there anybody here who'd like to change his clothes into a uniform? Is there anybody here who thinks they're only serving on a raging storm? Is there anybody here with glory in their eyes Loyal to