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Thread #102943 Message #3870173
Posted By: Rog Peek
05-Aug-17 - 05:53 PM
Thread Name: Songs for/about Phil Ochs
Subject: RE: Songs for/about Phil Ochs
P OCHS (DEATH OF A REBEL) (Jeremy Bolm)
You were a fan of the rebels Marlon Brando and James Dean kinda man But it was Seeger and it was Guthrie That taught you how to take a stand You up and moved from Ohio New York was the only place You moved in with Bobby Dylan Writing songs at an incredible pace Now you're getting the hang of it Singing songs for who needed a voice Speaking out where it was needed For anyone without a choice A song for the draft dodgers Vietnam was taking names So you built the tallest soap box And fought to make a change You let Dylan get in your head Called you a coward for not searching within All you ever wanted was to be the hero To be the hero that saved us But when the Kennedys died and we got Nixon California was calling and your depression set in It was time to get away, (but you were attacked and lost your voice ?) Would be the voice this world needed, or at least that's what you thought You called yourself John Butler Train, said Phil Ochs had died, you'd gone insane All you ever wanted was to be famous The hero hung himself and no one saved us.
Notes: Recorded on an EP "Hesitation Wounds", by a hardcore punk group of the same name in 2013. The author Jeremy Bolm was also a member of the group Touche Amore.