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Love Me, I’m A Liberal

Phil Ochs
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OriginalePAY ME, I'M NEOLIBERAL #2
LOVE ME, I’M A LIBERAL

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 Crane?
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 democtratic 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.
LOVE ME, I’M A LIBERAL


Greetings all you young free traders
I will tell you my greatest tale
How I looted pillaged and plundered
And never went to jail
Cause I called it all freedom and democracy
Though both of those concepts have failed
To start, I'm raising your tuition
I’m Neoliberal

Though my young days were often quite brutal
Swords, guns and so many dead
Now times have changed for the better
And they sit and meet with me instead
Maybe because I'm running their elections
Or maybe because they’re strangled by debt
Either way they’re quickly becoming
Neoliberals

And though I’m president of all Bolivia
I don’t have much to say
I can’t speak Quechua or Espanish
Cuz I grew up in the US of A
And I struggled through private acadamies
So surely your children will pay
Cuz I'm privatizing the school system
I’m Neoliberal

Ah the people of all Latin America
Should all hang their heads in shame
You know they need to come down from the mountains
And get in the money game
And if they won't work in our factories
We'll simply just cut off their aid
So pay me, pay me, pay me,
I'm Neoliberal

I’ve patented foreign invasion
With patents pending on air
And I’ve made GMO labor leaders
That all believe in Laissez-faire
And though their suffering wage cuts and job loss
They just don’t seem to care
Cuz I’ve spliced their common sense gene with Tomatoes
I’m Neoliberal

Now I go around preaching development
Through unrestricted Free Trade
Even though it's completely ass-backwards
As Russia has clearly displayed
We'll force it on you with sanction threats
Or our armies will have to invade
Now pay me, pay me, pay me
I'm Neoliberal
Notes:

Sonny Ochs says: "Lerner & Golden were both columnists with left-leaning tendencies. Harry Golden, a humorist, wrote some marvelous books and short stories. One I recall is his plan for integration in schools in the south (this was back when). Since the Southerners didn't mind blacks standing next to whites when making purchases in stores, he proposed that they take out all the chairs in the schools and let the students stand to learn. He called this "vertical integration."

Jason V. says: "Les Crane had a talk show based in NYC. Crane was quite liberal, and had many folksingers on his show."

Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon did a cover of this song with some updated lyrics (on their album "Prairie Home Invasion." Mojo Nixon sang this updated version solo on Comedy Central during their 1996 State of the Union show.

Chords supplied by Guy Matz and corrected by James Barnett.

Jan Hauenstein says ``Phil Ochs didn´t write the melody which comes from an old Irish folk song, "Rosin the Bow". That melody also found a new home in several American folk songs before Phil put it to good use. The melody for the "chorus-line" (Love me, love me, love me, I´m a liberal) is probably original Ochs, though.''


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