Lyrics A Toast To Those Who Are Gone - Phil Ochs

A Toast To Those Who Are Gone - Phil Ochs
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Date of issue: 23.04.2007
Record label: Phil Ochs
Song language: English

A Toast To Those Who Are Gone

Many’s the hour I’ve lain by my window
and thought of the people who carried the burden
Who marched in the strange fields in search of an answers
And ended their journeys an unwilling hero
Here’s a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
Back in the coal fields of old Harlan county
Some talked of the union, some talked of good wages
And they lined them up in the dark of the forests
And shot them down without asking no questions
Here’s a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine to the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
And over the ocean, to the red Spanish soil
came the lincoln brigade with their dreams
But they fell in the fire of germany’s bombing
And they fell 'cause no one would hear their sad warning
Here’s a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die
In old Alabama, in old Mississippi
Two states of the union so often found guilty
They came on the busses, they came on the marches
And they lay in the jails or they fell by the highway
Here’s a song to those who are gone with never a reason why
And a toast of the wine at the end of the line
And a toll of the bell for the next one to die

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Artist lyrics: Phil Ochs