Billy Bragg - I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night Lyrics

Lyrics I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night - Billy Bragg



(Billy Bragg Music: Earl Robinson)
I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night
Alive as you and me
Says I to Phil "You're ten years dead"
"I never died" says he
"I never died" says he
The music business killed you Phil
They ignored the things you said
And cast you out when fashions changed
Says Phil "But I ain't dead"
Says Phil "But I ain't dead"
The FBI harassed you Phil
They smeared you with their lies
Says he "But they could never kill
What they could not compromise
I never compromised"
"Though fashion's changed and critics sneered
The songs that I have sung
Are just as true tonight as then
The struggle carries on
The struggle carries on"
With the song of freedom rings out loud
From valleys and from hills
Where people stand up for their rights
Phil Ochs is with us still
Phil Ochs inspires us still



Writer(s): Robinson, Bragg


Billy Bragg - Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
Album Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
date of release
06-03-2006

1 Jeane (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
2 Love Gets Dangerous (Alternative Version)
3 The Cloth (1)
4 The Milkman of Human Kindness
5 To Have and to Have Not
6 Richard
7 A New England
8 The Man in the Iron Mask
9 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
10 Lovers Town Revisited
11 Strange Things Happen (Alternative Version)
12 Love Lives Here
13 Speedway Hero
14 Loving You Too Long
15 This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternative Version)
16 The Cloth (2)
17 The Man in the Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
18 A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
19 Fear Is a Man's Best Friend
20 It Says Here
21 Love Gets Dangerous
22 The Myth of Trust
23 From a Vauxhall Velox
24 The Saturday Boy
25 Island of No Reurn
26 St. Swithin's Day
27 Like Solders Do
28 This Guitar Says Sorry
29 Strange Things Happen
30 A Lover Sings
31 It Must Be A River
32 Won't Talk About It
33 Talking Wag Club Blues
34 You Got The Power
35 The Last Time
36 Back To The Old House
37 A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)
38 Which Side Are You On
39 It Says Here (Alternative Version)
40 Between the Wars
41 The World Turned Upside Down
42 Greetings to the New Brunette
43 Train Train
44 The Marriage
45 Ideology
46 Levi Stubbs' Tears
47 Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now
48 There Is Power in a Union
49 Help Save the Youth of America
50 Wishing the Days Away
51 The Passion
52 The Warmest Room
53 The Home Front
54 Sin City
55 Deportees
56 There Is Power In a Union (Instrumental)
57 The Tracks of My Tears
58 Wishing the Days Away (Alternative Version)
59 The Clashing of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
60 Greetings To the New Brunette (Demo)
61 A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
62 Only Bad Signs
63 Hold the Fort
64 The Internationale
65 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
66 The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
67 Blake's Jerusalem
68 Nicaragua Nicarguita
69 The Red Flag
70 My Youngest Son Came Home Today
71 Introduction (Live)
72 Help Save the Youth of America (Live)
73 Think Again (Live)
74 Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Live)
75 Days Like These (DC Remix)
76 To Have and to Have Not - Live
77 There is Power In a Union (With the Pattersons) [Alternative Version]
78 Joe Hill
79 This Land Is Your Land
80 Never Cross a Picket Line
81 A Change Is Gonna Come
82 A Miner's Life
83 From a Vauxhall to a Velox (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
84 The Marriage (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
85 It Says Here (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
86 Which Side Are You On (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
87 The Saturday Boy (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
88 The Milkman of Human Kindness (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
89 A Lover Sings (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
90 There Is Power In a Union (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
91 Between the Wars (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)
92 To Have and to Have Not (Live San Fransisco 3 June 1985)




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