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Phil Ochs - Talking Cuban Crisis
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Phil Ochs - Going Down To Mississipi
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Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Anymore
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Phil Ochs - My Life
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Phil Ochs - Niko Mchumba Ngombe
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Phil Ochs - The Ballad Of U.S. Steel
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Phil Ochs - Your Eyes Will Taste Of The Flowers
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Phil Ochs - A Toast to Those Who Are Gone
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Phil Ochs - Draft Dodger Rag
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Phil Ochs - Firehouse 35
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Phil Ochs - Miranda
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Phil Ochs - Monroe Town
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Phil Ochs - One Way Ticket Home
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Phil Ochs - You Should Have Been Down in Mississppi
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Phil Ochs - All My Heroes Are Dead
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Phil Ochs - Bwatue
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Phil Ochs - Cannons Of Christianity
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Phil Ochs - Days Of Decision
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Phil Ochs - Hands
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Phil Ochs - I Like Hitler
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Phil Ochs - Just One Of Those Days
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Phil Ochs - Keep The Change
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Phil Ochs - Love Me, I'm A Liberal
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Phil Ochs - Never Again
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Phil Ochs - Ringing Of Revolution
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Phil Ochs - Song Of My Returning
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Phil Ochs - Spanish Civil War Song
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Phil Ochs - The Ballad Of John Train
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Phil Ochs - The Day
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Phil Ochs - The Doll House
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Phil Ochs - The Harder They Fall
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Phil Ochs - The Hills Of West Virginia
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Phil Ochs - There But For Fortune
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Phil Ochs - Too Many Martyrs
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Phil Ochs - United Fruit
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Phil Ochs - We Seek No Wider War
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Phil Ochs - What's That I Hear?
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Phil Ochs - When I'm Gone
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Phil Ochs - A Year to Go By
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Phil Ochs - A.M.A. Song
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Phil Ochs - Another Age
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Phil Ochs - Another Country
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Phil Ochs - As I Walk Alone
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Phil Ochs - Automation Song
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Phil Ochs - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Me
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Phil Ochs - Ballad of Oxford (Jimmy Meredith)
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Phil Ochs - Ballad Of The Cuban Invasion
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Phil Ochs - Ballad of William Worthy
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Phil Ochs - Basket in the Pool
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Phil Ochs - Bullets Of Mexico
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Phil Ochs - Changes
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Phil Ochs - Chaplain Of The War
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Phil Ochs - Christine Keeler
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Phil Ochs - Crucifixion
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Phil Ochs - Davey Moore
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Phil Ochs - Encores
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Phil Ochs - Fallen Star
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Phil Ochs - Fifty Mile Hike
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Phil Ochs - Flower Lady
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Phil Ochs - Freedom Riders
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Phil Ochs - Gas Station Women
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Phil Ochs - Green Hills
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Phil Ochs - Half A Century High
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Phil Ochs - Hazard, Kentucky
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Phil Ochs - Here's To The State Of Mississipi
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Phil Ochs - Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon
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Phil Ochs - Highwayman
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Phil Ochs - How Long
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Phil Ochs - Hunger And Cold
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Phil Ochs - I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
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Phil Ochs - I Kill Therefore I Am
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Phil Ochs - I'll Be There
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Phil Ochs - I'm Tired
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Phil Ochs - In The Heat Of The Summer
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Phil Ochs - It's Been A Long, Long Story
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Phil Ochs - Joe Hill
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Phil Ochs - Kansas City Bomber
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Phil Ochs - Knock On The Door
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Phil Ochs - Legends
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Phil Ochs - Links On The Chain
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Phil Ochs - Lou Marsh
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Phil Ochs - Love is a Rainbow
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Phil Ochs - Maintaining Law And Order
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Phil Ochs - Men Behind The Guns
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Phil Ochs - Morning
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Phil Ochs - My Kingdom For A Car
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Phil Ochs - Never Bet Against The Yankees
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Phil Ochs - New Town
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Phil Ochs - No Christmas in Kentucky
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Phil Ochs - No More Songs
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Phil Ochs - On Her Hand a Golden Ring
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Phil Ochs - On My Way
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Phil Ochs - One More Parade
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Phil Ochs - Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends
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Phil Ochs - Paul Crump
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Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbor
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Phil Ochs - Power And Glory
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Phil Ochs - Pretty Smart On My Part
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Phil Ochs - Remember Me
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Phil Ochs - Rivers Of The Blood
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Phil Ochs - Sing Along With Me
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Phil Ochs - Spaceman
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Phil Ochs - Take It Out Of My Youth
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Phil Ochs - Talkin' Pay TV
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Phil Ochs - Talking Birmingham Jam
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Phil Ochs - Talking Vietnam
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Phil Ochs - Tape From California
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Phil Ochs - That Was The President
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Phil Ochs - That's The Way It's Gonna Be
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Phil Ochs - That's What I Want To Hear
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Phil Ochs - The Ballad of Billie Sol
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Phil Ochs - The Ballad Of John Henry Faulk
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Phil Ochs - The Ballad Of The Carpenter
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Phil Ochs - The Bells
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Phil Ochs - The Confession
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Phil Ochs - The Floods of Florence
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Phil Ochs - The Iron Lady
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Phil Ochs - The Marines Have Landed On The Shores Of Santo Dom
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Phil Ochs - The Party
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Phil Ochs - The Passing Of My Life
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Phil Ochs - The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns
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Phil Ochs - The Trial
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Phil Ochs - When First Unto This Country
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Phil Ochs - William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed
Men Behind The Guns
Phil Ochs
Let's drink a toast to the admiral,
Dm F
and here's to the captain bold,
Am Dm
and glory more for the commodore,
F C
when the deeds of might are told.
Dm C
They stand to the deck with the battle's wreck,
Dm F
when the great shells roar and pound,
Am Dm
and never they fear when the foe is near
F C
to lay their orders down--
F Dm
But off with your hats and three times three
F C
for every sailor's son,
Dm C
for the men below who fight the foe,
F C
the men behind the guns:
Am Dm
oh, the men behind the guns.
Their hearts a-pounding heavy when
they swing to port once more --
with never enough of the greenback stuff,
they start for the leave ashore.
And you'd think perhaps the blue-blouse chaps
had better clothes to wear,
for the uniforms of officers
could hardly be compared:
Warriors bold with straps of gold
that dazzle like the sun
outshine the common sailor boys,
the lads who serve the guns:
oh, the men behind the guns.
Say not a word till the shot is heard
that tells the fight is on,
and the angry sound of another round
that says there must be (God? gone??)
Over the deep and the deadly sweep,
the fire and the bursting shell,
where the very air is a mad despair,
the throes of a living hell.
But down and deep in a mighty ship
unseen by the midday sun
you'll find the boys who make the noise,
the lads who serve the guns:
oh, the men behind the guns.
And well they know the cyclone blow
loose from the cannon's steel.
The know the hull of the enemy ship
will quiver with the (peal?).
And the decks will rock with the lightning shock
and shake with the great recoil
while the sea grows red with the blood of the dead
and swallows up her spoil.
But not until the final ship
has made her final run
can we give their rest to the very best:
to the lads who serve the guns --
oh, the men behind the guns.
Let's drink a toast to the admiral,
and here's to the captain bold,
and glory more for the commodore,
when the deeds of might are told.
They stand to the deck with the battle's wreck,
when the great shells roar and pound,
and never they fear when the foe is near
to lay their orders down--
But off with your hats and three times three
for every sailor's son,
for the men below who fight the foe,
the men behind the guns:
oh, the man behind the gun.