Phil Ochs Ballad of a Carpenter Jesus Christ

[tuomaankuoma1]

Of course! if you wanna take piece of this and piece of that and explainet how you want you can throw Jesus away and be just jackass what your are. BUT read Matthew 5-7, and try think your self.

[tuomaankuoma1]

What about Mathew 5- 7. Was or was it not Jesus who was speaking, not a fucking Paul or Peter? Ha?

[Seasass]

Tuli looks a bit like that portrait of Jesus! Love Tuli--been a fan of his since I heard "CIA Man" at the end of "Burn After Reading".

[11xzxzxz]

Phil was jewish and didn't believe in christ. He would never go along with the ideas of a guy who believed in everlasting hell, gnawing and gnashing of teeth for eternity, for moral skeptics who could just not believer the bad dogma of the Bible and Jesus' shallow and cruel teaching. The old "testacles" instruct parents to stone and kill their children who talk back and a groom to stone and kill his bride on their Wedding Night if she is not a virgin.

[ARP7777777]

@11xzxzxz Pleasure and pain go hand in hand.

[11xzxzxz]

@ARP7777777 In the bible pain and pain go hand in hand.

[RPenta]

@11xzxzxz Ok, dumbass, it's on: what "shallow and cruel" teachings of Jesus did you have in mind? I am a very imperfect follow of the Son of God/Son of Man so do not expect me to suffer fools like you gladly, as He might have. By the way, you cretin, Jesus was more Jewish than Phil Ochs.

Great song; been looking for this for years.

[11xzxzxz]

@RPenta Listen you are the dumb-ass you can't read the written word nor write it. I just wrote the details 3 months ago. Please get an education and a lobotomy. Jesus spoke 3 times through (the mouths of John Paul etc maybe Ringo) that skeptics should suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell. No exceptions and one only gets into heaven through belief in Jesus, THE SON. It's not enough to believe in god. That all it takes according the the gospels.

[lonsumtravlr]

Phil's cover is the best. I love how he rewrites the end of the song and makes the dream a choice of the listener. Makes me think of the "Shorter Ending" to the Gospel According to Mark.

[KennBurch]

What is the origin of this clip?

I assume this was done a long time after Phil's death, but was this for broadcast?

[KennBurch]

@KennBurch This video was posted in the last few years by the late poet(and former lead singer of The Fugs)Tuli Kupferberg.

[Naanoux]

I really like the version of this song by Marie Laforet, the lyrics have a totally different meaning ...