Phil Ochs Day
This is the first time a musician has been the MKZ artist of the day, but in this time of possible war, I'd like to draw attention to one of my favorite singer/songwriters, Phil Ochs. For a large part of his career he sang Vientnam protest songs. Most of his songs were protesting some injustice or other that was happening at the time, and just as importantly they are all good songs that are nice to listen to, with catchy choruses or just really good music accompanying his incredible lyrics. But his Vietnam protest songs are the ones I'm most familiar with. His album 'I Ain't Marching Anymore' was the first I had heard. The title track is an incredible song that I've listened to more times than I could count. In each lyric it goes through a particular war in which the Americans were involved, the injustices they commited then followed by the refrain of "I ain't marchin' anymore". The song seems particular apt with the bullshit the Bush administration is trying to go through with in the name of oil.
The full lyrics, notes and chords to I Ain't Marchin' Anymore can be found here. I'd recommend it to the top of your list of songs to download too.
"[The demonstrations were] merely an attack of mental disobedience
on an obediently insane society...and if you feel you have been living
in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly
because this power structure has refused to listen to reason...Step
outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own
rules and your own reality."
-Phil Ochs (in response to anti-war protests)
More quotes can be found here.
This is the first time a musician has been the MKZ artist of the day, but in this time of possible war, I'd like to draw attention to one of my favorite singer/songwriters, Phil Ochs. For a large part of his career he sang Vientnam protest songs. Most of his songs were protesting some injustice or other that was happening at the time, and just as importantly they are all good songs that are nice to listen to, with catchy choruses or just really good music accompanying his incredible lyrics. But his Vietnam protest songs are the ones I'm most familiar with. His album 'I Ain't Marching Anymore' was the first I had heard. The title track is an incredible song that I've listened to more times than I could count. In each lyric it goes through a particular war in which the Americans were involved, the injustices they commited then followed by the refrain of "I ain't marchin' anymore". The song seems particular apt with the bullshit the Bush administration is trying to go through with in the name of oil.
 | "Oh I marched to the battle of New Orleans
At the end of the early British war The young land started growing The young blood started flowing But I ain't marchin' anymore "For I've killed my share of Indians In a thousand different fights I was there at the Little Big Horn I heard many men lying I saw many more dying But I ain't marchin' anymore "It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun Tell me is it worth it all" |
The full lyrics, notes and chords to I Ain't Marchin' Anymore can be found here. I'd recommend it to the top of your list of songs to download too.
"[The demonstrations were] merely an attack of mental disobedience
on an obediently insane society...and if you feel you have been living
in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly
because this power structure has refused to listen to reason...Step
outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own
rules and your own reality."
-Phil Ochs (in response to anti-war protests)
More quotes can be found here.
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