Jim and Phil can be seen here performing on 'The Midnight Special' here In a recent email, Jim told me that they were supposed to be singing 'Outside of a Small Circle of Friends', but that had contained the line 'Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer!' so they had to sing 'The Power and the Glory' instead.
PSYCHIC COWBOY (Jim Glover)
Chorus: Where are we going? What will we see? What can we do to change our destiny Tell us the answer you seldom have been wrong And sing us another psychic cowboy song
He came out of Ohio, with music on his lips Grand Ol Opry ain't never heard nothin' like it He sang about tomorrow like he'd been there yesterday He was a singing, song writin',fortune telling astro ace.
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He told about his travels over in Dar-Es-Salaam Where three men strangled and robbed him in the early dawn Their hands could reach his pockets, but they could not rob his mind, One more strange time he has left behind
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Energy is everywhere, it's us and it's everything Like magnetic healing, solar storaging We can use what we've got and live in harmony Working together with a strength that will keep us free.
Chorus Sing us another psychic cowboy song
Notes Jim Glover was an important influence for Phil in the early days, both politically and musically. They shared a room at Ohio State during which time Jim introduced Phil to left wing politics and to the songs of Pete Seeger, The Weavers and Woody Guthrie et al. He also taught Phil to play guitar and eventually they performed as a duo with Jim on banjo, calling themselves the Sundowners. Although they went their separate ways as performers, they stayed in contact over the years, remaining good friends. Jim did backing vocals on Phil's last album 'Greatest Hits' and I have a recording in 1974 of Phil playing with Jim at the Quiet Knight in Chicago just before they appeared together on 'The Midnight Special'. Jim wrote Psychic Cowboy for Phil and performed it at the Phil Ochs' Memorial tribute at Felt Forum NYC on 28th May 1976. It wasn't released on record until 1980, when it was included on the album 'No Need to Explain' (Fang Records NR 11694). RP jul07