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# | Phil Ochs lyrics
Tape From California lyrics E
Who's that coming down the road
D A
A sailor from the sea
D F#m
He looks a lot like me
E G E
I'd know him anywhere, had to stare
Feathers at his fingertips
D A
A halo 'round his spine
D F#m
he must have lost his mind
E G
he should be put away, right away
C#m
In the corner of the night
D Bm
he handed me his waterpipe
F#m Bm E
His eyes were searching deep inside my head
Here's what he said
Am
Sorry I can't stop and talk now
D
I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
C G A E
But I'll send you a tape from California
New York city has exploded and it's crashed upon my head
I dove beneath the bed
Fighting, biting nails, turning pale
The landlord's at my window
And the burglar's at my door
I can't take it anymore
I guess I'll have to fly, it's worth a try
Someone's banging on the wall
But there's no party to recall
The singer of the shadows of his soul
So he's been told
Sorry I can't stop and talk now
I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
But I'll send you a tape from California
D C D C
From the mirror of my mantle to the velvet on my bed
D C Am E
Trapped upon a stolen stage, a Barrymore at best(?)
A G A G
My rhymes are all repeating, ballads growing blind
G#m A F#m B7 E
Words have turned to water, the women turned to wine
The draft board is debating if they'd like to take my life
I'd sooner take a wife and have raise a child or two
Wouldn't you?
Peace has turned to poison
The flag has blown a fuse
Even courage is confused
And now all the brave are in the grave
Century is bending(?)
have a very happy ending
To the victor go the ashes of the spoil
Seeds in the soil
Sorry I can't stop and talk now
I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
But I'll send you a tape from California
The flower-power fuller brush man
is farming out his friends
I stabbed him with my stem
And then I tapped his toes with my rose
He crawled around inside himself
Now he's crawling after me
Dropping acid in my tea
He wants to save his soul
rock and roll
One of us must understand
It's not the drug that makes the man
Then a poster of a movie star walked by
He must have been high
Sorry I can't stop and talk now
I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
But I'll send you a tape from California
Half the world is crazy and the other half is scared
Maddonas do the minuet for the naked millionaires
The anarchists are rising while we're racing for the moon
It doesn't take a seer to see that the scene is coming soon
So who's that coming down the road
A sailor from the sea
He looks a lot like me
I'd know him anywhere
Had to stare
A fire around his fingertips
A song around his spine
He must have found his mind
He should be put away
Anyway
Surrounded by the slaughter
Now I'm boarding(?) at the border
When the echoes of my ecstacy appear
Wish I was here
Sorry I can't stop and talk now
I'm in kind of a hurry anyhow
But I'll send you a tape from California
Other Phil Ochs lyrics:
Automation Song lyrics Ballad of William Worthy lyrics Bound For Glory lyrics Bullets Of Mexico lyrics Celia lyrics Knock on the Door lyrics Lou Marsh lyrics One More Parade lyrics The Thresher lyrics Too Many Martyrs lyrics What's That I Hear? lyrics Talking Cuban Crisis lyrics That's What I Want To Hear lyrics That Was The President lyrics The Iron Lady lyrics The Hills Of West Virginia lyrics Men Behind The Guns lyrics Days Of Decision lyrics Here's to the State of Mississippi lyrics In The Heat Of The Summer lyrics The Ballad Of The Carpenter lyrics I'm Going To Say It Now lyrics Bracero lyrics Ringing of Revolution lyrics The Cannons of Christianity lyrics Cops of the World lyrics The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo lyrics Love Me, I'm a Liberal lyrics When I'm Gone lyrics I've Had Her lyrics Miranda lyrics Flower Lady lyrics White Boots Marching In A Yellow Land lyrics The War Is Over lyrics The Harder They Fall lyrics The Floods of Florence lyrics Joe Hill lyrics When In Rome lyrics One Way Ticket Home lyrics Jim Dean Of Indiana lyrics My Kingdom For A Car lyrics Boy In Ohio lyrics Gas Station Women lyrics Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Me lyrics Basket in the Pool lyrics No More Songs lyrics Chords Of Fame lyrics Ten Cents a Coup lyrics Colored Town lyrics A.M.A. Song lyrics William Moore lyrics Going Down To Mississipi lyrics I'll Be There lyrics No Christmas in Kentucky lyrics A Toast to Those Who Are Gone lyrics I'm Tired lyrics City Boy lyrics Do What I Have To Do lyrics The Ballad of Billie Sol lyrics Paul Crump lyrics Ballad of Oxford (Jimmy Meredith) lyrics Song of my Returning lyrics The Trial lyrics If I Knew lyrics The Ballad Of John Henry Faulk lyrics Spaceman lyrics On My Way lyrics Hazard, Kentucky lyrics The Passing Of My Life lyrics That's The Way It's Gonna Be lyrics Rivers Of The Blood lyrics Remember Me lyrics Christine Keeler lyrics Spanish Civil War Song lyrics Another Country lyrics Time Was lyrics The Ballad Of Alferd Packer lyrics Talkin' Pay TV lyrics Another Age lyrics Changes lyrics Crucifixion lyrics I Kill Therefore I Am lyrics Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends lyrics The Bells lyrics The Doll House lyrics The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns lyrics The World Began In Eden And Ended in Los Angeles lyrics There but for Fortune lyrics William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed lyrics The Highwayman lyrics Ballad of Medgar Evers lyrics Draft Dodger Rag lyrics Half A Century High lyrics Is There Anybody Here lyrics Links On The Chain lyrics Pleasures of the Harbor lyrics Cross My Heart lyrics I Ain't Marching Anymore lyrics Talking Birmingham Jam lyrics Talking Vietnam lyrics The Party lyrics The Power And The Glory lyrics
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