Phil was at virtually every demonstration I went to during the 60’s and the 70’s. There with his guitar cutting down the racists and the fascists. Phil, we truly loved you. I will never forget the morning I learned you had died. I still cry for you.
Admittedly it was odd, but years ago when my kids were little this was one of their favorite bedtime songs that I'd sing to them. It was a captivating story with memorable musical hooks. To this day I miss Phil Ochs and his intelligence, passion and compassion.
I am in the USAF serving in the military, I listen to Phils songs EVERYDAY in my car on the way to work. I used to listen to bob Dylan, but I find whats ironic is that Bob Dylan was a very POP artist in the "Folk" world, and I have learned many of his songs, Phil, was NOT pop, he was never "Cool" he always strikes a chord with you, he is like the book you cannot simply put down, yet keep reading it over yet over again, and gain more understanding every time you read or browse through it. Genius!
@Zionism toHell Had you posted a link to inform John who's one of millions who've not idea of Dylan's zionism, the above fight might've just have awoken the next person to their horrors. That said, like James Brown who made amazing art while abusing women, it's best to admire the good and admonish / try / convict the bad. Dylan's silence and support for the Israeli oppressor makes a mockery of his stature as an "angry humanitarian". www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/bob-dylan-161020110227212.html
@johnmburt1960 Could not be MORE relevant, despite zionism to hell's bluntess: Dylan's silence and support for the Israeli oppressor makes a mockery of his stature as an "angry humanitarian". www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/bob-dylan-161020110227212.html
Oh, thank you. For just a moment I was 16 again, and it was was 1964. Sitting front and center at the Gaslight on MacDougal Street nursing the hot apple cider I bought for my two drink minimum. Thank you Phil, Thank you Gaslight, and thank you antiprocon!
Only Phil could hit those sweet notes with such grace and feeling.. what a singer and also a social activist... he give a generation hope and enlightightent in doing so of the some of the youth were informed not to go and shed their blood in foreign fields for old mens imperial dreams... Phil may not have changed the world ...but he changed many peoples view of the world forever.....
Fantastic to find this on RUclips! Be sure to turn it up to catch Phil's guitar part - it adds to the urgency and drama of the lyric. I was fortunate enough to meed Phil when I was 17 and to have a long conversation with him - he gave me excellent advice and changed my life.
I always wished I could talk to Ohil Ochs more than anyone else. I’m only sixteen now but I’ve never heard of anyone as exceptional as Mr. Ochs. He seems so approachable and kind. It’s a real shame I can never meet him.
@@logan36511 This is what kills me. People like Ochs and Seeger have changed my life but I'll never be able to talk to them or even see them. I often feel an urge just to hug them.
Perfect. Beautiful. I always choked up at the line in Phil's Joe Hill song, "there'll be one less singer in the land." What a loss!! And yet he lives on and on.
every Wednesday night i abandoned Brooklyn to go to the Gaslight in the Village and saw him many times and heard this song and of course "The Draft Dodger Rag". i will never forget those nights on Mc Dougal Street. i love the poem and read it often.
Both of my kids learned this poem in the 5th grade as part of their cyber school curriculum, but somehow it never even occurred me to play them this song! How could I have forgotten? It is so much better when set by music. RIP, Phil. You will always be one of my favorite musicians.
67 travels back to 21 in a coffee house in Philadelphia......it really seems like yesterday when I saw him then. Listened to him on LP records and now on an iPad....."Changes" indeed.
I'll come to thee by moonlight...I came back on here just to listen to Phil - thanks to You Tube. I know Dylan must come on here to listen to his old friends.
What a lucky man you are to be able to say that you personally saw Phil at the Gaslight in his Heyday. Phil and his music was so very special to me back in high school in New Ulm, MN in the mid 60's. He was the best of the very best and I will never forget him!
I used this Phil Ochs song to teach my high school learning challenged students the Alfred Noyes poem of the same name. Ochs put the poem to music. I loved Phil Ochs, the troubadour of the anti war movement.
A voice like 🍯 and brilliantly can cause commotion by juxtaposing his beautiful voice with the most hard hitting truths. An incredible singer songwriter. RIP Phil. X
I wish there were more young Phil Ochs fans. It seems as if the only people who truly appreciate him as the revolutionary genius he was (and still is, really) are people who knew him and saw his performances back in the sixties and seventies when he was alive. While I sadly cannot speak for his life, I can vouch for his legacy: one of America's great talents, one of the world's great tragedies, and someone whose music will always move and inspire me. What I'd give to speak with him. Rest in peace, Phil; you will be remembered.
18 year old here, Phil Ochs has been a tremendous impact on my thinking and the way I see the world. I have made a meager, but valiant attempt at spreading his genius to other people my age
We are here! I am a young artist who painted an oil painting of Phil to commemorate his work. We must spread Phil Ochs' work far and wide because he deserves to be known everywhere.
Lest some think me naive and childish, I must say that Phil Ochs was a genius and listening to him brings back the dreams and desires of youth...so many, many years before; a youth that dreamed dreams of peace and love and harmony; a youth that truly loved the music of Phil Ochs. Although I was never fortunate enough to see him live, Phil Ochs has been and will always be a part of my life. For this I am thankful and will be grateful forever.
In the Mid-60's when we were travelling through the night very late at night, we would sing this song, over and over, and, eventually, get to wherever we were bound for, or, at least, see the sunrise.
A huge and sincere thank-you to the person who uploaded this .Just a beautiful voice and singer/songwriter.Listening to Phil always brings tears to my eyes because his songs are so mesmerizing,sincere,beautiful and unique.And they bring up so many emotions and feelings.Miss you Mr.Ochs
He died.....about twenty years before I was born. Yesterday I saw a documentary about the man. "There but for Fortune." He is missed. We need his voice in this world.
After his voice was destroyed in an attack in Kenya, Phil seemed to lose everything. He hanged himself not long after, leaving a note saying “there are no more songs”. I truly loved Phil. I met him at a McCarthy rally in 68 when I was 16. He turned me from a vague anti war liberal into a wild eyed activist. I still thank him nearly 60 years later.
I met Phil when I was 16. I was working for Gene McCarthy. He had a rally at Tiger Stadium. I remember it rained and I was wearing a white dress. I was afraid it would be transparent. After the singing and the speeches, Phil came down and talked to the kids working the rally. He was so kind. That was the first of the many times I saw him.
I did some folk singing in my youth & always liked/admired him. Wish he was still around today to help us make some sense of this often confusing world.
Phil Ochs must rate among the great of the 60/70's musician/poets. The Highwayman remains one of my favourite PO recordings and this post is the very first time I've ever seen him performing. So, double, double thanks for posting.
Wow, I love this song. i haven't heard it in aa long time. Alfred Noyes's poem is one of my favorite. I always heard Phil Ochs sing this song when I read it. He is still one of the best folk singers from my teen years in the 60s. Thanks for posting this great video.
Fabulous. I teach this in my poetry unit with my 7th graders. They love it. Loreena Mc Kinnett does a marvelous job with this as well. Thanks for posting this.
This was an interesting time, Phil Ochs, Dylan (before he went electric) Dave Van Ronk, Richard and Mimi Farina, Eric Anderson, Pete Seeger ,Joan Baez, some really great meaningful music.
I have loved this guy's music since I first heard it in 1969, at age 15. I learned to play the guitar, and used to do this song; it's very hard to play. I never thought I would get to see him perform the song. His picking and strumming are unbelievable. He so easily hits the notes perfectly. Thank you to whoever uploaded this. PS: If you "found" Phil Ochs on this video, listen to him sing "That Was the President", and "Here's to the State of Mississippi". RIP Mr. Ochs
an old memory... girlfriend and I 'borrowed' her parents car to drive from NY to Philadelphia to see Phil. Not enough $ to get home we picked up a hitchhicker from Ft Dix in New Jersey. We fought off the unwanted attentions for gas money. We were so naive. So naive.... Thank you Phil.
I first heard Phil Ochs when I was a teenager, just a couple of years after he died. I read comments here by people who saw him performing live and envy them, and wish all the more that Phil had found his way to the other side of the Lonesome Valley and stayed with us for awhile longer.
phil is sort of the "unremembered Bob Dillon". Wrote at about the same time about much of the same stuff. Dillion is more bluesy, Ochs more folky. Sadly, one of the reasons Phil Ochs is not remembered much is because he died young of suicide brought on by serious depression. You can hear the depression at work in the body of his works, which has caused some people to refer to him as "Phil Ose" (as in morose.)
As long as you discover Phil's work, it doesn't matter when. Phil left us the day after my 5th birthday, do you think I was a fan of his work on that day? Of course not, I'd never heard of him. But I have heard of him since, shall we say. Phil forever.
@@paullavan6098I'm 10 years late to this thread but I just recently discovered Phil over the last year and I'm 30 years old. I've spent the last year listening to Phil almost every single day. His music transcends the 60's not only because his music is timeless but sadly we still see a lot of problems facing us today as they did then in his day.
he out did Dylan ( IMNHO) for topical songs. We loved him. Pat Sky, Eric Anderson so many more came to the GASLIGHT, it was Phil that stayed, in our hearts. Oh the time we went to Philly to see him at the Third Fret. 10$ in our poclets, a 'borrowed' car and running out of gas. Those WERE the days. WE are tomorrows grandparents. Ask us about our stories before WE die.
Billy Bragg and Tom Morello are probably the closes thing we have today to Phil Ochs. His demons got the better of him in the end, but what a ride it was.
So, I am old now and understand what as a youth I only wantonly felt. Yes I still believe. Follow your hearts young people, listen to the songs, dream our dreams, make them real, There are mistakes..make them and continue. Life is a journey and your map is for YOU to chart.
We had a local folksinger in a suburb of Detroit (back in the 60's) who sang this song. His name is Ron Coden, who sang at the "Raven Gallery." Ron sang with a great deal more emotion, but Phil's voice is quite lovely. Thought I'd never hear this song again. Thanks. 10+ stars!
Do not even try and compare phil and Bob Dylan. I met them both and I saw them both many times. They were both great and unique. Phil would be very cool to hear today. Dylan is amazing these days at 81. Stop being negative. Art is beauty in the eye of the beholder.
Wait, where are the flashy lights, thumping baseline, seductive dancers, screaming audience.... oh that's right you don't need any of that when you've got raw talent. Phil you are a hero to me.
I just finished reading a book about him.I had heard of him, but very little media was given. I realize how much compassion and talent he had. I agree with you,you don't need dancers and alot of the crap that's present today..
Ducksoup67, you are absolutely right on. It was a lovely time and if we had something to say then we said it! We had our beliefs and didn't need anything but the words and the melody. Phil, RIP, you are my hero too. Love and Peace, Skip See you again someday when its my time!
Amen to all of that! I consider myself one of the people he changed for the better. Just wish I had seen him in person - I did see many of the singers from that time including dylan, baez, van ronk, patrick sky and many others but somehow I missed Phil to my everlasting regret!
@friend839 I was at that concert. He was absolutly amazing!!! i was soaked through to the skin,i told my daughter about that concert,she,s a phil ochs fan,but i could,nt find the concert in the list of his c0ncerts,now i know where it was,thanks a lot
Thank you so much for posting this! I learned the song from a friend over 30 years ago, but I never knew where she'd learned it (the music, not the poem). Imagine my elation to find this today and to finally know the source of this wonderful melody! :-)))
It's RFK Jr or bust for me. Don't agree with him on everything, but he's the only candidate running on ending chronic disease, addiction, national debt, ending forever w4rs, and fixing the polarization. He unifies people from all sides, and we need someone like that right now.
When I was a teenager during the 60s, I too became enormously emotional when I heard in person or via recording Phil Ochs’ interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems set to music but didn’t think that 55 years hence I still would treasure all of his work.
Phil was at virtually every demonstration I went to during the 60’s and the 70’s. There with his guitar cutting down the racists and the fascists. Phil, we truly loved you. I will never forget the morning I learned you had died. I still cry for you.
Such artists appear once in a 100 years!!Do play his records and keep his memory alive!
Admittedly it was odd, but years ago when my kids were little this was one of their favorite bedtime songs that I'd sing to them. It was a captivating story with memorable musical hooks. To this day I miss Phil Ochs and his intelligence, passion and compassion.
just can't get enough of Phil. no matter the moment or circumstance, there is always a tune that fits the mood. so deep, so authentic
After thirty years we still miss him, and we need him more than ever.
I am in the USAF serving in the military, I listen to Phils songs EVERYDAY in my car on the way to work. I used to listen to bob Dylan, but I find whats ironic is that Bob Dylan was a very POP artist in the "Folk" world, and I have learned many of his songs, Phil, was NOT pop, he was never "Cool" he always strikes a chord with you, he is like the book you cannot simply put down, yet keep reading it over yet over again, and gain more understanding every time you read or browse through it. Genius!
@Zionism toHell Had you posted a link to inform John who's one of millions who've not idea of Dylan's zionism, the above fight might've just have awoken the next person to their horrors.
That said, like James Brown who made amazing art while abusing women, it's best to admire the good and admonish / try / convict the bad. Dylan's silence and support for the Israeli oppressor makes a mockery of his stature as an "angry humanitarian". www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/bob-dylan-161020110227212.html
@johnmburt1960 Could not be MORE relevant, despite zionism to hell's bluntess: Dylan's silence and support for the Israeli oppressor makes a mockery of his stature as an "angry humanitarian". www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/bob-dylan-161020110227212.html
What are (were) you fighting for?
Listen to cops of the world over and over until you get the message soldier
Oh, thank you.
For just a moment I was 16 again, and it was was 1964. Sitting front and center at the Gaslight on MacDougal Street nursing the hot apple cider I bought for my two drink minimum.
Thank you Phil, Thank you Gaslight, and thank you antiprocon!
Only Phil could hit those sweet notes with such grace and feeling.. what a singer and also a social activist... he give a generation hope and enlightightent in doing so of the some of the youth were informed not to go and shed their blood in foreign fields for old mens imperial dreams... Phil may not have changed the world ...but he changed many peoples view of the world forever.....
He sure changed my life.
My favorite singer/songwriter of all time. Phil, all of your loyal fans miss you today, now, more than ever!!!
Phil Ochs is greatly missed. Words by Sir Alfred Noyes. This is beauty in every sense of the word.
Fantastic to find this on RUclips! Be sure to turn it up to catch Phil's guitar part - it adds to the urgency and drama of the lyric.
I was fortunate enough to meed Phil when I was 17 and to have a long conversation with him - he gave me excellent advice and changed my life.
Ken Shaw what did he say?
I always wished I could talk to Ohil Ochs more than anyone else. I’m only sixteen now but I’ve never heard of anyone as exceptional as Mr. Ochs. He seems so approachable and kind. It’s a real shame I can never meet him.
@@logan36511 This is what kills me. People like Ochs and Seeger have changed my life but I'll never be able to talk to them or even see them. I often feel an urge just to hug them.
I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night, alive as you and me. Says I to Phil "You're 40 years dead,"
"I never died," says he.
"I never died," says he....
This is the perfect comment.
Jordan Simerly it was that song that introduced me to Phil Ochs.
Perfect. Beautiful. I always choked up at the line in Phil's Joe Hill song, "there'll be one less singer in the land." What a loss!! And yet he lives on and on.
He is still alive for me.
every Wednesday night i abandoned Brooklyn to go to the Gaslight in the Village and saw him many times and heard this song and of course "The Draft Dodger Rag". i will never forget those nights on Mc Dougal Street. i love the poem and read it often.
Beautiful interpretation of a beautiful poem. ❤
This is the first time I have heard Phil Ochs. I am blown away. Thank you for sharing. Music and poetry lives on here. Thank you.
Both of my kids learned this poem in the 5th grade as part of their cyber school curriculum, but somehow it never even occurred me to play them this song! How could I have forgotten? It is so much better when set by music. RIP, Phil. You will always be one of my favorite musicians.
i listened to phil's albums many hours in high school. he transcends time. no one like him still.
as long as Phil's music available, he lives on in our hearts and minds..bless sonny and Michael for keeping phil alive....
I bought every CD I could find. I still have the old records but no record player.
How I remember those hot apple ciders and great folk music at the Gaslight. The best memories of those by-gone days!
Hey Mike, thanks for your service and glad to see that Phil is still liked and recognized by younger people.
67 travels back to 21 in a coffee house in Philadelphia......it really seems like yesterday when I saw him then. Listened to him on LP records and now on an iPad....."Changes" indeed.
I'll come to thee by moonlight...I came back on here just to listen to Phil - thanks to You Tube. I know Dylan must come on here to listen to his old friends.
What a lucky man you are to be able to say that you personally saw Phil at the Gaslight in his Heyday. Phil and his music was so very special to me back in high school in New Ulm, MN in the mid 60's. He was the best of the very best and I will never forget him!
I used this Phil Ochs song to teach my high school learning challenged students the Alfred Noyes poem of the same name. Ochs put the poem to music. I loved Phil Ochs, the troubadour of the anti war movement.
Be my teacher plz
I did the poem in school and discovered this independently years later and no one seems to recall the poem from school :(
This tune, like the poem, was a beauty. It can still bring me to tears 50 years later.
A voice like 🍯 and brilliantly can cause commotion by juxtaposing his beautiful voice with the most hard hitting truths. An incredible singer songwriter. RIP Phil. X
I wish there were more young Phil Ochs fans. It seems as if the only people who truly appreciate him as the revolutionary genius he was (and still is, really) are people who knew him and saw his performances back in the sixties and seventies when he was alive. While I sadly cannot speak for his life, I can vouch for his legacy: one of America's great talents, one of the world's great tragedies, and someone whose music will always move and inspire me. What I'd give to speak with him. Rest in peace, Phil; you will be remembered.
don't worry - I'm in my 30s and I love then man...and I'll pass on his message to my kids when they're old enough!
I am touched by your memorable tribute to Phil Ochs.
18 year old here, Phil Ochs has been a tremendous impact on my thinking and the way I see the world. I have made a meager, but valiant attempt at spreading his genius to other people my age
We are here! I am a young artist who painted an oil painting of Phil to commemorate his work. We must spread Phil Ochs' work far and wide because he deserves to be known everywhere.
I'm 20 and listen to him every day. he never gets stale and and his compassion and political conviction inform so much of my own life and decisions
Lest some think me naive and childish, I must say that Phil Ochs was a genius and listening to him brings back the dreams and desires of youth...so many, many years before; a youth that dreamed dreams of peace and love and harmony; a youth that truly loved the music of Phil Ochs. Although I was never fortunate enough to see him live, Phil Ochs has been and will always be a part of my life. For this I am thankful and will be grateful forever.
In the Mid-60's when we were travelling through the night very late at night, we would sing this song, over and over, and, eventually, get to wherever we were bound for, or, at least, see the sunrise.
Comments from 12 yrs ago. Love this man and his music. Rabbit hole tonight. Aliha
A huge and sincere thank-you to the person who uploaded this .Just a beautiful voice and singer/songwriter.Listening to Phil always brings tears to my eyes because his songs are so mesmerizing,sincere,beautiful and unique.And they bring up so many emotions and feelings.Miss you Mr.Ochs
my pleasure
He died.....about twenty years before I was born. Yesterday I saw a documentary about the man. "There but for Fortune." He is missed. We need his voice in this world.
After his voice was destroyed in an attack in Kenya, Phil seemed to lose everything. He hanged himself not long after, leaving a note saying “there are no more songs”. I truly loved Phil. I met him at a McCarthy rally in 68 when I was 16. He turned me from a vague anti war liberal into a wild eyed activist. I still thank him nearly 60 years later.
This song never fails to captivate and move me. It is something that belongs to the ages.
I can't. get enough. of. Phil. 0chs may. he. rest. in. peace amen
hey its me, im back, no resting to be had, looking to save the world through health and spiritual well being this time around, cheers !
Most can't. get their. phil of Ochs. either
@@oppothumbs1 hey. Leave. The. Poor. Feller. Alone.
Forget not that 1776 was civil war
Don't forget Richie Havens
Pure magic. Unequalled, inimitable. Genius.
Evocative moving song.. 😢❤ Sky
I met Phil when I was 16. I was working for Gene McCarthy. He had a rally at Tiger Stadium. I remember it rained and I was wearing a white dress. I was afraid it would be transparent. After the singing and the speeches, Phil came down and talked to the kids working the rally. He was so kind. That was the first of the many times I saw him.
I keep returning to this.. and it keeps reaching to me..
C
We all know the brilliant songs Phil wrote, but for me it is this vid that shows just what a terrific vocalist he was too------one of the best ever!
saw phil ochs in copenhagen such a long time ago. always was moved by him singing this poem. first time i' ve seen him sing it. deeply touching.
and finally got it transposed to playing out of G-fingering. I can't carry it in C.
Beautiful song. The version from 1973 in the "Live Again!" album has to be my favorite. I love how frenetic the guitar sounds in that recording.
I did some folk singing in my youth & always liked/admired him. Wish he was still around today to help us make some sense of this often confusing world.
Phil Ochs must rate among the great of the 60/70's musician/poets. The Highwayman remains one of my favourite PO recordings and this post is the very first time I've ever seen him performing. So, double, double thanks for posting.
What a talent, and such an amazing voice. Tragic about his demise.
I've listened to this song about a million times and I can never remember all the words. What a memory he has!!
phil is an unsung legend. we must keep him alive.
Wow, I love this song. i haven't heard it in aa long time. Alfred Noyes's poem is one of my favorite. I always heard Phil Ochs sing this song when I read it. He is still one of the best folk singers from my teen years in the 60s. Thanks for posting this great video.
Fabulous. I teach this in my poetry unit with my 7th graders. They love it. Loreena Mc Kinnett does a marvelous job with this as well.
Thanks for posting this.
This was an interesting time, Phil Ochs, Dylan (before he went electric) Dave Van Ronk, Richard and Mimi Farina, Eric Anderson, Pete Seeger ,Joan Baez, some really great meaningful music.
Edwin McGrath Dylan's music didn't cease being meaningful when he went 'electric'...
Edwin McGrath It was a great time to be young, even after it moved to electric
When dylan went electric he became even better...
@Edwin McGrath
PF Sloan also.
I have loved this guy's music since I first heard it in 1969, at age 15. I learned to play the guitar, and used to do this song; it's very hard to play. I never thought I would get to see him perform the song. His picking and strumming are unbelievable. He so easily hits the notes perfectly. Thank you to whoever uploaded this. PS: If you "found" Phil Ochs on this video, listen to him sing "That Was the President", and "Here's to the State of Mississippi". RIP Mr. Ochs
hello. Steve. I afree amen
hello Steve. I. agree. with. you. on this. song. it is. diffecult. to. play. but. I. love listing to it I. have. this song. on. Phil. great hits c d
My sister brought home All the News That’s Fit to Sing n the early 60’s. I was hooked.
Always good to see him singing. Be sure to check out the Celebrating Phil Ochs 75th Birthday Facebook page or the Celebrating Phil Ochs website.
an old memory...
girlfriend and I 'borrowed' her parents car to drive from NY to Philadelphia to see Phil. Not enough $ to get home we picked up a hitchhicker from Ft Dix in New Jersey. We fought off the unwanted attentions for gas money. We were so naive. So naive....
Thank you Phil.
Discovered Phil only in 1988
I just heard this song in school today, and I love it now. Too bad he's gone. You'll be missed Phil!
I first heard Phil Ochs when I was a teenager, just a couple of years after he died. I read comments here by people who saw him performing live and envy them, and wish all the more that Phil had found his way to the other side of the Lonesome Valley and stayed with us for awhile longer.
Love his music!
Thank you for uploading this. My father played this song for me when I was a kid. Beautiful. Makes me cry ever time I hear it.
i had never heard of phil ochs before, i'm glad i discovered this!
Dig deep, riches beyond measure await you in the Ochs body of work.
phil is sort of the "unremembered Bob Dillon". Wrote at about the same time about much of the same stuff. Dillion is more bluesy, Ochs more folky.
Sadly, one of the reasons Phil Ochs is not remembered much is because he died young of suicide brought on by serious depression. You can hear the depression at work in the body of his works, which has caused some people to refer to him as "Phil Ose" (as in morose.)
As long as you discover Phil's work, it doesn't matter when. Phil left us the day after my 5th birthday, do you think I was a fan of his work on that day? Of course not, I'd never heard of him. But I have heard of him since, shall we say. Phil forever.
@@paullavan6098I'm 10 years late to this thread but I just recently discovered Phil over the last year and I'm 30 years old. I've spent the last year listening to Phil almost every single day. His music transcends the 60's not only because his music is timeless but sadly we still see a lot of problems facing us today as they did then in his day.
I was a teenager when I saw him in Boston. I consider myself blessed
he out did Dylan ( IMNHO) for topical songs. We loved him.
Pat Sky, Eric Anderson so many more came to the GASLIGHT, it was Phil that stayed, in our hearts.
Oh the time we went to Philly to see him at the Third Fret. 10$ in our poclets, a 'borrowed' car and running out of gas.
Those WERE the days.
WE are tomorrows grandparents. Ask us about our stories before WE die.
Fuck dude i wish i had grand parents like you, mine are either dead or rotten people who hate life
LeCave Cleveland 1966-68 mesmerizing
I saw him at UC Santa Barbara in early 1969. With the future mother of my three children. I remember.
Always my hero, Phil. Always.
He truly was the Highwayman; America, his Bess.
Part of the beginning of my radicalization, at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1964.
Billy Bragg and Tom Morello are probably the closes thing we have today to Phil Ochs. His demons got the better of him in the end, but what a ride it was.
A poet with a guitar, never heard him when he was alive :(
God I had to learn this poem at school in the 1950’s ! I never knew that Phil Ochs sang it . Thanks for loading
A beautiful interpretation of a beautiful song from a special talent. Thanks for letting us share in this.
I love this song. I miss Phil . Glad he is now at peace. I am not in these crazy days full of RTWNJs and all the HATE..
This is as good as it gets folks.
He was Always cool to me..........when listening to him during the Nam Days.
So,
I am old now and understand what as a youth I only wantonly felt. Yes I still believe. Follow your hearts young people, listen to the songs, dream our dreams, make them real, There are mistakes..make them and continue. Life is a journey and your map is for YOU to chart.
What an amazing poet. Why isn't he taught in every class?
I love the visual description.
THIS IS THE BEST VERSION
Phil Ochs is eternal.
This haunting tale to music puts so many TV and movie "horror" efforts to shame.
We had a local folksinger in a suburb of Detroit (back in the 60's) who sang this song. His name is Ron Coden, who sang at the "Raven Gallery." Ron sang with a great deal more emotion, but Phil's voice is quite lovely. Thought I'd never hear this song again. Thanks. 10+ stars!
His songs makes me cry. The world would succeed with rulers like Phil. He was a so sensible man to inhabit this planet. He didn’t die: he transcended.
Thank you for this great rendition. I dream of a Phil Ochs/ Jackson C Frank duo in heaven.
Gawd, I love this man.
haruspex54 me too. We could sure use him now.
Me three. Took the words right outta my mouth.
Do not even try and compare phil and Bob Dylan. I met them both and I saw them both many times. They were both great and unique. Phil would be very cool to hear today. Dylan is amazing these days at 81. Stop being negative. Art is beauty in the eye of the beholder.
I don't know how you found this, but thank you so much!
Phil was a regular player at the GASLIGHT in Greenwich Village.
Thanks
We miss you
God, I miss this man.
I can’t stop listening this song.
Wait, where are the flashy lights, thumping baseline, seductive dancers, screaming audience.... oh that's right you don't need any of that when you've got raw talent.
Phil you are a hero to me.
I just finished reading a book about him.I had heard of him, but very little media was given. I realize how much compassion and talent he had. I agree with you,you don't need dancers and alot of the crap that's present today..
Well said Ducksoup67. I find it weird how relevant and beautiful his songs remain.
Ducksoup67, you are absolutely right on. It was a lovely time and if we had something to say then we said it! We had our beliefs and didn't need anything but the words and the melody. Phil, RIP, you are my hero too. Love and Peace, Skip
See you again someday when its my time!
I had the same thoughts :)
Same with the one of the Joan Baez shows that is available on here.
Amen to all of that! I consider myself one of the people he changed for the better. Just wish I had seen him in person - I did see many of the singers from that time including dylan, baez, van ronk, patrick sky and many others but somehow I missed Phil to my everlasting regret!
could not be any better!
This song haunts me... I didn't know it was a poem written by someone else. Of course, Phil's voice will haunt us always.
man..... This is the poem by that one English author that I am learning in English. :D
Taught to both of my kids in the fifth grade.
@friend839 I was at that concert. He was absolutly amazing!!!
i was soaked through to the skin,i told my daughter about that concert,she,s a phil ochs fan,but i could,nt find the concert in the list of his c0ncerts,now i know where it was,thanks a lot
Phil Ochs to me is just the idea of consummate youth and vigor. I feel like he is some long lost buddy of mine and I wish I could be more like him.
oh my, yes 16 again on McDougal Street! You know WE are now the -last generation- we MUST make sure they know.
I was blessed to see him live once in England back in 1966 (?) at the Beaulieu Folk Festival. Great time but awful rain!
You know, it's kind of off-putting to simultaneously brag about being in England, and complain about the rain. (just kidding! lol)
Thank you so much for posting this! I learned the song from a friend over 30 years ago, but I never knew where she'd learned it (the music, not the poem). Imagine my elation to find this today and to finally know the source of this wonderful melody! :-)))
a regular heard song in the 70s folk clubs
Phil Ochs is so relevant now. The 2024 election is a disaster - we need new candidates!
It's RFK Jr or bust for me. Don't agree with him on everything, but he's the only candidate running on ending chronic disease, addiction, national debt, ending forever w4rs, and fixing the polarization. He unifies people from all sides, and we need someone like that right now.
am i the only 17 year old who cries when they listen to Phil Ochs?
No, so did I. I'm 70 now.
@@kathleenferguson3296 much love 🙂↕️♥️ thank you for bringing me back here ♥️
When I was a teenager during the 60s, I too became enormously emotional when I heard in person or via recording Phil Ochs’ interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems set to music but didn’t think that 55 years hence I still would treasure all of his work.
You are certainly not the only one who was moved by this song . ,,, and I still moved by it as a senior.
This song ends the first side of Phil's brilliant album "I ain't marching any more". He credits Alfred Noyes as the poet in the liner notes.