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Lyrics for The Ballad Of John Henry Faulk by Phil Ochs:
| | | Artist: | Phil Ochs |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | The Ballad Of John Henry Faulk | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 57 | | | | Lyrics: | I'll tell you the story of John Henry Faulk.
I'll tell you of his trials and the troubled trail
he walked,
And I'll tell of the tyrants, the ones you never see:
Murder is the role they
play and hatred is their fee.
On the TV and the radio John Henry Faulk was known.
He
talked to many thousands with a mind that was his own,
But he could not close his eyes when the
lists were passed around,
So he tried to move the Union to tear the blacklist down.
His
friends they tried to warn him he was headin' for a fall.
If he spoke against the blacklist he
had no chance at all,
But he laughed away their warnings and he laughed away their
fears:
For how could lies destroy the work of many honest years?
Then slowly, oh so
slowly, his life began to change.
People would avoid his eyes, his friends were actin'
strange,
And he finally saw the power of the hidden poison pen
When they told him that his
job was through, he'd never work again.
And he could not believe what his sad eyes had
found.
He stared in disbelief as his world came tumblin' down,
And as the noose grew
tighter, at last the trap was clear:
For every place he turned to go, that list would soon be
there
-- Oh, that list.
And is there any bottom to the fears that grow
inside?
Is there any bottom to the hate that you must hide?
And is there any end to your
long road of despair?
Is there any end to the pain that you must bear?
His wife and
children trembled, the time was runnin' short,
When a man of law got on their side and took them
into court,
And there upon the stand they could not hide behind their eyes,
And the cancer
of the fascist was displayed before our eyes.
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