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* [[Anvilicious]]: Ochs deliberately wrote in that style; he defined protest songs as "a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit." |
* [[Anvilicious]]: Ochs deliberately wrote in that style; he defined protest songs as "a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit." |
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* [[Covered Up]]: [[Joan Baez]]'s cover of Ochs' song, "There but for Fortune", became much more successful than the original. Ochs sometimes jokingly introduced the song as written by Baez. |
* [[Covered Up]]: [[Joan Baez]]'s cover of Ochs' song, "There but for Fortune", became much more successful than the original. Ochs sometimes jokingly introduced the song as written by Baez. |
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* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The verse about alcoholism in "There but for Fortune" becomes even sadder knowing that Ochs became an alcoholic himself: |
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The verse about alcoholism in "There but for Fortune" becomes even sadder knowing that Ochs became an alcoholic himself: |
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{{quote|''Show me the whiskey stains on the floor |
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Show me a drunk as he stumbles out the door |
''Show me a drunk as he stumbles out the door |
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And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why |
''And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why |
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There but for fortune, go you or I.'' }} |
''There but for fortune, go you or I.'' }} |
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Latest revision as of 21:23, 7 November 2018
- Anvilicious: Ochs deliberately wrote in that style; he defined protest songs as "a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit."
- Covered Up: Joan Baez's cover of Ochs' song, "There but for Fortune", became much more successful than the original. Ochs sometimes jokingly introduced the song as written by Baez.
- Harsher in Hindsight: The verse about alcoholism in "There but for Fortune" becomes even sadder knowing that Ochs became an alcoholic himself:
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Show me the whiskey stains on the floor |
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