Phil Ochs piosenki

Sit by my side, come as close as the air, Share in a memory of gray; Wander in my words, dream about the pictures That I play of changes. Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall To brown and to yellow they fade. And then they have to die, trapped wi...

God bless the men who've learned to put their lives upon the line, and God bless the men who've learned to sip the sacrifical wine God bless the men who'll murder in th service of the Lord; Blessings from the Chaplain of the War. Give thanks to the parent...

I found him by the stage last night He was breathing his last breath A bottle of gin and a cigarette Was all that he had left I can see you make the music 'Cause you carry a guitar But God, help the troubadour Who tries to be a star So play the chord...

Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, You're the gals for me. Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, I'll keep you company. You can have your Marilyn, your Carolyn, your Jacqueline. Grace Kelly never meant that much to me-- Just give me: Christine K...

I'm just a city boy Born and bred It's a city life I've led My pasture was a street I've never climbed a tree But that's all right with me 'Cause I'm a city boy I'm just a city boy Born and raised From these rooftops I have gazed Where the grass was...

The cosmetic cosmic city crawls beneath its ashtray possibilities the studios spread their poisoned beauty outside the sound stages of parody and beneath the mechanized moon he sprawled his carnivorous cartoons embracing the exquisite outrages of his on...

Just across the railroad tracks On the far side of the town All the people there are black And they live in colored town Colored town Speeding cars down the highway run They never stop to look around One place that the highway shuns And that place is...

Come, get out of the way, boys Quick, get out of the way You'd better watch what you say, boys Better watch what you say We've rammed in your harbor and tied to your port And our pistols are hungry and our tempers are short So bring your daughters aroun...

I don't know but it seems that every single dream's Painted pretty pictures in the air Then it tumbles in despair and it starts to bend Until by the end it's a nightmare But I'm gonna give all that I've got to give Cross my heart And I hope to live I...

And the night comes again to the circle studded sky The stars settle slowly, in lonliness they lie 'Till the universe expodes as a falling star is raised Planets are paralyzed, mountains are amazed But they all glow brighter from the briliance of the blaze...

It was out to California young Davey Moore did go, to meet with Sugar Ramos and trade him blow for blow He left his home in Springfield, his wife and children five; the spring was fast approaching, it was good to be alive. His wife, she begged and pleaded,...

Oh, the shadows of doubt are in many a mind, Lookin' for an answer they're never gonna find, But they'd better decide 'cause they're runnin' out of time, For these are the days of decision. Oh, the games of stalling you cannot afford, Dark is the danger that'...

[intro: ] All around this country, trouble in the air And I hear the voices calling me Asking "do you know and do you care? Do you know and do you care?" So I'm a-gonna do what I have to do Say what I have to say And I'm gonna be what I have to be Now...

You laugh at the people who walk outside on the sidewalk And you talk to yourself so much When you see other people you can't talk This time it's true The charade is through And you can't seem to run away from you Away from you And the haggard ex-lover...

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 I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said...

Centuries took holidays before these days became desperately clear that chariots full of Christmas cheer could never draw the child near but this year one of the last remaining years Santa Claus is a sniper on the roof of Macy's picking off the custom...

Some people never get their feet on the ground, they're either sitting in a chair or they're laying down their bellies are hanging down on their knees, it's almost a national emergency. Fifty miles, keep a-walking, Twenty-five miles and you're almost ther...

I've often wondered why, as a fireman races by, How often have I said, "Why are fire engines red?" Just ask the boys in Firehouse 35 (Chorus) Singin' Firehouse Thirty Five, Firehouse Thirty Five In between all the fires they are quenchin' their desires,...

First snow on the autumn ground Covers grass where she once lay down Blanket of white, grass out of sight, Where did she go, tell me first snow. First snow cover my mistakes Cover the past with your flakes Perfect white sheet, beneath my feet I hurt he...

Millionaires and paupers walk the hungry street Rich and poor companions of the restless beat Strangers in a foreign land, strike a match with a trembling hand Learn too much to ever understand But nobody's buying flowers from the flower lady Lover's qu...