ADD: A Toast To Those Who Are Gone (Phil Ochs)

Subject: Lyr Add: PHIL OCHS A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 07:51 PM

I have just read a reference to a Phil Ochs song about the Spanish Civil War which I had not encountered before. It is called A Toast To Those Who Are Gone.

The writer of the article, PAUL C. MISHLER said:   
Phil Ochs referred to the Spanish Civil War in two songs from the early 1960s. A Toast to Those Who Are Gone was recorded as a demo tape in 1964, and only released in 1986 many years
after Ochs' death. The title song contains the following lyrics:


And over the ocean to the red Spanish soil,
Came the Lincoln Brigade with their dreams of a victory,
But they fell in the fire of Germany's bombings,
And they fell cause nobody would hear their sad warning.

Does anyone have the complete lyrics and if so will you post them here please?

As MISCHLER says,Ochs also wrote a song entitled "Spanish Civil War Song" (Ochs,
1964), which was recorded between 1962 and 1964 by Broadside magazine
and issued only in 1980. but his song I already have in my list on this thread HERE

Subject: RE: ADD: A Toast To Those Who Are Gone (Phil Ochs)
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 10:45 PM

The lyrics to this song, and pretty much every song Ochs wrote, are available at http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics.html

Subject: RE: ADD: A Toast To Those Who Are Gone (Phil Ochs)
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 07:02 AM

Link here

Rog

Subject: RE: ADD: A Toast To Those Who Are Gone (Phil Ochs)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Dec 10 - 09:54 AM

Thank you Gerry and Rog.
HERE is a YouTube Performance of the Song by Raymond Crooke