Love Me, I'm a Liberal - Phil Ochs descargar videos gratis


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Love Me, I'm a Liberal

I cried when they shot Medgar Evers

Tears ran down my spine

I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy

As though I'd lost a father of mine

But Malcolm X got what was coming

He got what he asked for this time

So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I go to civil rights rallies

And I put down the old D.A.R.

I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy

I hope every colored boy becomes a star

But don't talk about revolution

That's going a little bit too far

So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen

My faith in the system restored

I'm glad the commies were thrown out

of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board

I love Puerto Ricans and Negros

as long as they don't move next door

So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

The people of old Mississippi

Should all hang their heads in shame

I can't understand how their minds work

What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?

But if you ask me to bus my children

I hope the cops take down your name

So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I read New republic and Nation

I've learned to take every view

You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden

I feel like I'm almost a Jew

But when it comes to times like Korea

There's no one more red, white and blue

So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I vote for the democratic party

They want the U.N. to be strong

I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts

He sure gets me singing those songs

I'll send all the money you ask for

But don't ask me to come on along

So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Once I was young and impulsive

I wore every conceivable pin

Even went to the socialist meetings

Learned all the old union hymns

But I've grown older and wiser

And that's why I'm turning you in

So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Comentarios

9 years ago

Rick O'Leary

No, the song is not a tad racist.

9 years ago

TheExRepublican

+PatrioticGlory This has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read. I think my IQ dropped a few points by reading it.

9 years ago

MickTheQuickk

Phil at his best. Brilliant, tongue-in-cheek material. If you don't "get it", listen again.

10 years ago

Leslie Jones

The radicals were applauding while the liberals were nervously laughing

10 years ago

Leslie Jones

Its a song about liberals versus radicals (actual communists, marxists, anarchists, etc), with liberals being unhelpful and the first ones to rat someone out or complain when the social change they call for affects them. Liberals are people two steps to the left when they talk to you and two steps to the right when a black family moves next door or their stock market portfolio isn't trading well.

10 years ago

gymnastix

The spelling of the stage surname of the late radio & television talk show host (mentioned in this song's fourth verse) is spelled "Crane," not "Crain." But, actually, Les Crane's real name was Lesley Stein; a typical strategy of entertainers from a certain background to disguise their heritage.

10 years ago

PatrioticGlory

Sadly, Phil Ochs's history is much like Obama's. A Marxist became a father-figure. (His real father spent 2 years in a mental institution). The song is a sincere attempt of Phil's to fix an essential contradiction in liberalism, i.e. the impossibility of living up to its utopian standards. Had he lived longer, he would have seen the downside: Liberalism ultimately requires government force to attain its goals yet the enslaving nature of that force makes it a self-defeating ideology.

11 years ago

Rob Derrick

Number 1: "Liberal" is back. It's revival heralded by the great Paul Wellstone. Brought to the offstream/mainstream by Stephanie Miller (see "Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour"). See Thom Hartmann, Al Franken and Bernie Sanders, to name a few. It's back baby. And yet, I still love this song. Also, someone may know who the DAR are, but they don't appear to know who Phil Ochs is.

11 years ago

Bob Marston

It is readily obvious that you know little if anything about the Daughters of The American Revolution otherwise you would have addressed it. There is no "perhaps" about it, your analysis is flawed. The tune addresses the arrogance of Liberals who think they are all knowing but possess a minimal command of the subject matter they talk about. The is readily evident in your quip "The only reasonable explanation". So everyone else is unreasonable. Do yourself a favor crack open a history book !

11 years ago

Bob Marston

Iverglas your explanation is incorrect. The DAR that Ochs refers to in the song is The Daughters of the American Revolution. It was an organization of women whose lineage can be traced back to that event. It had a Strict Racist admissions policy which won adherents from the "Old South" and flourished among racist. As best I can determine Ochs' quip about Dykes of the American Revolution was a flip and insensitive attempt at humor.

11 years ago

Gregg H

I wonder if the crowd applauded because they were for busing or against it.

11 years ago

rukeyser

Ochs was a progressive - mocking the folks who talked the talk & feared the walk.

11 years ago

John Paul

I really don't think Mr. Ochs is saying he is or is for liberals. Sounds more like a jab. I think he was the same as me. a deliberatable. ;P

11 years ago

teachemc

your not the only one I hope someday they,ll join us

11 years ago

Jerry C

u guys r laughable he speaking to u who talk the talk but will never take the walk phoneys just listen to urselves

11 years ago

Brad Ryerson

Ha ha. iverglas is nuts. :-0

11 years ago

Ethan Davidson

This song made sense back in the sixties, but now. The L word has become poison, and everybody, left and right, uses it as an insult. I'm the only one who still claims it, but then I'm a conotrarian and a masochist.

11 years ago

bigverybadtom

I'm old enough to remember when the term "liberal" meant something other than "I don't care what a politician does as long as they are a Democrat!" Where was the peace movement when Clinton got us involved in Yugoslavia, or Obama was bombing Libya? And who did the feminists support when Clinton was guilty of sexual harrassment?

11 years ago

neilchert

good lessons in this one from the mass social protest movements of 60/70s Now we have learn ABC political lessons over again -- BOTH the liberals /conservatives are supporters of the capitalist system of exploutation. BOTH the Democrats and GOP are reactionary - their 'democracy' is a fraud!! Heads the Banksters win- tails you lose!! Dont mourn too much --Organize /educate /emancipate

12 years ago

Vic Sadot

Thanks for posting Phil Ochs! Check out my tribute to Phil, my new "Broadside Balladeer" playlist here, and my May 1973 free download interview with Phil at w w w dot no more songs dot org And I released an update version of this song you can hear at w w w vicsadot dot com or Last FM internet readio where it is a free download.

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