Phil Ochs Lyric Index

This is my collection of Phil Ochs Lyrics. I would say that this is almost all of his lyrics. Many thanks to all who have contributed.

I have started adding annotations to many songs since some of the topics have become dated (i.e. who was William Moore?) Contributions are needed for this effort.

I have fixed up this index so it indicates which songs I do not yet have lyrics for, which songs are not on any albums, which ones have chords, notes about the songs, or unclear lyrics.

Please send any corrections, additions or annotations to trent@cs.pdx.edu. ++thanks.

  • All My Heroes Are Dead By Dar Williams
  • All Quiet On The Western Front (non album, notes, unclear lyrics)
  • A.M.A. Song (chords, notes)
  • Another Age (unclear lyrics, notes, chords)
  • Another Country (notes, chords)
  • As I Walk Alone (non album)
  • Automation Song (chords)
  • A Year to Go By (non album)
  • Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Me (chords)
  • The Ballad Of Alferd Packer (notes, chords)
  • The Ballad Of John Henry Faulk (notes, chords)
  • The Ballad of John Train (non album)
  • Ballad of Medgar Evers (notes)
  • Ballad of Oxford (Jimmy Meredith)
  • The Ballad of Sonny Liston (non album)
  • The Ballad Of The Carpenter By Ewan MacColl (chords)
  • Ballad of the Cuban Invasion (unclear lyrics, non album)
  • The Ballad Of U.S. Steel (non album, unclear lyrics)
  • Ballad of William Worthy (notes)
  • Basket in the Pool (chords, notes)
  • The Bells By Edgar Allen Poe, musical adaptation by Phil Ochs (chords)
  • The Ballad of Billie Sol (chords)
  • Bound For Glory (chords, notes)
  • Boy In Ohio (chords, notes)
  • Bracero (chords, notes)
  • Bullets Of Mexico (notes, unclear lyrics)
  • Bwatue (notes)
  • The Cannons of Christianity (chords, notes)
  • Can't Stay Around Here Anymore By Phil Ochs/Bob Gibson (no lyrics, non album, notes)
  • Celia (chords)
  • Changes (notes, chords)
  • Chaplain of the War (non album, chords)
  • Chords Of Fame (chords)
  • Christine Keeler (notes)
  • City Boy (chords)
  • Cobbwebs (poem/liner notes)
  • Colored Town (chords)
  • The Confession (non album, chords)
  • Cops of the World
  • Cross My Heart (chords)
  • Crucifixion (notes, chords)
  • Davey Moore (non album)
  • Days Of Decision (notes, chords)
  • Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore (chords)
  • The Doll House (chords, unclear lyrics)
  • Do What I Have To Do (chords)
  • Draft Dodger Rag (chords)
  • Encores (notes)
  • Fallen Star By Barry Drake (notes)
  • Fifty Mile Hike (non album)
  • Firehouse 35 (non album)
  • First Snow (non album)
  • The Floods of Florence (chords)
  • Flower Lady (chords)
  • Freedom Riders (non album)
  • Gas Station Women (chords, notes)
  • Going Down To Mississipi
  • Green Hills (non album)
  • Half A Century High (chords, notes)
  • Hands By Phil Ochs, Arrangements & lyric changes by Jim Glover (notes)
  • The Harder They Fall (chords)
  • Hazard, Kentucky (notes, chords)
  • Here's to the State of Mississippi (chords)
  • Here's to the State of Richard Nixon (chords)
  • The Highwayman By Alfred Noyes and Phil Ochs (chords)
  • The Highwayman By Alfred Noyes
  • The Hills Of West Virginia (chords)
  • How High's the Watergate (notes, non album)
  • How Long (non album)
  • Hunger and Cold (notes)
  • I Ain't Marching Anymore (chords, notes)
  • I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night By Billy Bragg (chords, notes)
  • If I Knew
  • I Kill Therefore I Am (chords)
  • I Like Hitler (notes, non album)
  • I'll Be There (notes)
  • I Going To Say It Now (chords)
  • I'm Tired (chords)
  • In The Heat Of The Summer (chords)
  • The Iron Lady (chords)
  • Is There Anybody Here
  • It's Been A Long, Long Story (non album)
  • I've Had Her (chords)
  • I Will Not Hurt You (no lyrics, non album, notes)
  • Jim Dean Of Indiana (notes, chords)
  • Joe Hill (notes, chords)
  • Just One Of Those Days (non album)
  • Kansas City Bomber (notes)
  • Keep the Change (unclear lyrics, non album, chords, notes)
  • Killing Martyrs By Phil Ochs/Bob Gibson (no lyrics, non album, notes)
  • Knock on the Door
  • Legends By Sammy Walker (notes)
  • Love Me, I'm a Liberal (chords, notes)
  • Links On The Chain (chords)
  • Lou Marsh (chords)
  • Love Is A Rainbow (non album)
  • Maintaining Law And Order (non album)
  • The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo (chords)
  • Men Behind The Guns By Phil Ochs and John Rooney (chords)
  • Miranda (chords)
  • Monroe Town (unclear lyrics, non album)
  • Morning (notes, non album, chords)
  • My Kingdom For A Car (chords)
  • My Life (chords)
  • Never Again (non album)
  • Never Bet Against The Yankees (non album)
  • New Town (non album)
  • Niko Mchumba Ngombe (notes, chords)
  • No Christmas in Kentucky (chords)
  • No Grave Gonna Hold Me By Phil Ochs and Bob Gibson (no lyrics, non album, notes)
  • No More Songs (notes, chords, unclear lyrics)
  • One More Parade By Phil Ochs and Bob Gibson (chords)
  • One-Way Ticket Home (chords)
  • On Her Hand A Golden Ring (notes)
  • On My Way (notes, chords)
  • The Parade's Still Passing By By Harry Chapin
  • The Party (chords)
  • The Passing Of My Life (notes, chords)
  • Paul Crump (chords, notes)
  • Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue and Me By John Wesley Harding (notes)
  • Phil By Tom Paxton
  • Phil Ochs By Steve Skaith and Mike Jones
  • Pleasures of the Harbor (chords)
  • The Power And The Glory (chords)
  • Pretty Smart On My Part (chords)
  • Radio Fragile
  • Rehearsals for Retirement (chords)
  • Remember Me (notes)
  • Ringing of Revolution (chords, notes)
  • Rivers Of The Blood (notes)
  • The Sad and Silent Song of a Soldier (non album, chords)
  • Sailors and Soldiers (non album)
  • The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns (chords)
  • The Shoals of Herring By Ewan MacColl (chords, non album)
  • Sing Along With Me (non album)
  • Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends (chords, notes)
  • Smash Flop Hits (non album)
  • Song of my Returning (chords)
  • Spaceman (notes)
  • Spanish Civil War Song (notes)
  • Take It Out Of My Youth (non album)
  • Talking Birmingham Jam
  • Talking Cuban Crisis
  • Talkin' Pay TV (notes)
  • Talking Plane Disaster (chords, non album)
  • Talking Vietnam
  • Tape From California (chords)
  • Ten Cents a Coup (chords)
  • That's The Way It's Gonna Be By Phil Ochs and Bob Gibson (notes, chords)
  • That's What I Want To Hear (chords)
  • That Was The President (chords, notes)
  • The Day By They Might Be Giants (notes)
  • There but for Fortune (notes, chords)
  • They Were Ready for That Day (no lyrics, non album)
  • Thirsty Boots By Eric Andersen (notes)
  • This Old World Is Changing Hands (non album)
  • The Thresher (chords, notes)
  • Time Was (chords)
  • A Toast to Those Who Are Gone (chords)
  • Too Many Martyrs By Phil Ochs and Bob Gibson
  • The Torture Garden (poem/liner notes)
  • The Trial
  • United Fruit (non album, notes)
  • Viet Nam (non album)
  • The War Is Over (chords)
  • We Seek No Wider War (notes, non album)
  • What Are You Fighting For (chords, notes, unclear lyrics)
  • What's That I Hear?
  • When First Unto This Country (non album)
  • When I'm Gone (chords)
  • When In Rome (chords)
  • Where There's A Will There's A Way (non album)
  • Where were you in Chicago?
  • White Boots Marching In A Yellow Land (unclear lyrics, chords)
  • William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed (chords)
  • William Moore (chords, notes)
  • The World Began In Eden And Ended in Los Angeles (chords)
  • You Can't Get Stoned Enough (non album, notes)
  • Your Eyes Will Taste Of The Flowers (non album)
  • You Should Have Been Down In Mississppi (non album)
  • Yukon Air Crash (non album)
    • index generated on Sat Jul 27 14:24:55 EDT 2002