Phil Ochs -- Love me, I'm a liberal

İ 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

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[zeroeffects88]

What a shocker that conservatives don't understand the meaning of the song. Sigh...

[Redstar226]

@scoopolard "A shameless, bloody communist" Sure, yeah, I'm proud to call myself a communist. This does not mean I'm a Stalinist or an authoritarian - freedom, socialism, and direct democracy, collective control of the means of production and distribution - none of these things require tyranny

[BillyBonzilla]

The Truth will set you free.... and at first can really piss you off! 

[Twistednerver]

This song is a critique of liberalism from the left. It's a socialist critique of the faux radicalism and phony indignation liberals have for the status quo all the while actually supporting it, by only picking the 'safe' issues to be liberal on. It's not a critique of the left from the right/it's a critique of the center from the left.

[jacobromu]

@BillyBonzilla Your Creator is a dictator and your constution is the slave owners document.

[Twistednerver]

@BillyBonzilla lol lay off the lsd buddy boy.

[BillyBonzilla]

@Twistednerver Keep watching the re-runs - have the life you deserve.

[Twistednerver]

@BillyBonzilla yeah,seriously old fig, watch what,youre saying. Maybe you know some screw ups or were one. But ill out jeopardy you on any topic.

[BillyBonzilla]

@saxaphonedude ... you didn't "get it".. and if you think giving up your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in the name of progression is the way to a better future then you are truly lost. Else, enjoy the Life , Liberty and pursuit of happiness endowed to us by our Creator and held as law in the US Constitution in these United States of America! Whilst you still can cause its slipping away.

[saxaphonedude]

@BillyBonzilla As a youth, who avoids drugs and can regulate their life just fine. Also, am well educated, could take offense to this. Though, i won't haha. But the problem with the older generation is while they have more experience they are more set in their ways and dont like progression. If old people were the only who could vote, i bet this country would be so backwards and authoritative, and if only youth could vote, then we would be shambles. That's why we need both :)

[Aqquila89]

Oh, God. This song is about me...

[BillyBonzilla]

Youth is wasted on the young.... who cares what they think - the young are just that, young, unread, ignorant waifs, chasing orgasms and a quick high.... that say let those old folks worry about making a living, taxes and justice and all that crap...(ooh, was I young once????)