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

04 Dec 10 - 07:51 PM (#3046558)
Subject: Lyr Add: PHIL OCHS A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
From: GeoffLawes

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

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04 Dec 10 - 10:45 PM (#3046642)
Subject: RE: ADD: A Toast To Those Who Are Gone (Phil Ochs)
From: GUEST,Gerry

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

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05 Dec 10 - 07:02 AM (#3046784)
Subject: RE: ADD: A Toast To Those Who Are Gone (Phil Ochs)
From: GUEST

Link here

Rog

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05 Dec 10 - 09:54 AM (#3046827)
Subject: RE: ADD: A Toast To Those Who Are Gone (Phil Ochs)
From: GeoffLawes

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

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