Phil Ochs

Come you ranks of labor, come you union core And see if you remember the struggles of before When you were

Oh, look outside the window There's a woman being grabbed They've dragged her to the bushes And

I cried when they shot Medgar Evers Tears ran down my spine I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy As

Oh, the shadows of doubt are in many a mind Lookin' for an answer they're never gonna find But

It was just a little while ago, I glued my ears to the radio The announcer was sayin' we'd better

There's no place in this world where I'll belong when I'm gone And I won't know the right from

As I went out one evening to take the evening air I was blessed by a blood-red moon In Lincoln Park the dark

Oh, I laid down your railroads, every mile of track With the muscles on my arm and the sweat upon my back

When the wind from the island is rollin' through the trees When a kiss from a prison cell is carried in the

I'd like a one-way ticket home, ticket home Where I can watch television, talk on the telephone But

Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells What a world of merriment Their melody foretells

Pre> C f em Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your own F em am And

Let's drink a toast to the admiral And here's to the captain bold And glory more for the

He walked all over his own growin' land From the New York island to the California sand He saw all the

Over the ashes of blood marched the civilized soldiers Over the ruins of the French fortress of a failure