• Clubbing4198@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Whenever liberals tell you they care, just remember this beautiful phil ochs song!

    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