Happy 70th Birthday Phil Ochs~!

The great folksinger Phil Ochs would have turned 70 today. (He hanged himself at age 35, following a period of depression in which he believed he was a man named John Butler Train who had murdered Phil Ochs.) Ochs was the vintage Greenwich Village protest singer. Happy Birthday! Here's a smattering of songs:

"Here's to the State of Mississippi" is one of my favorite songs, incurably dated, but still powerful:

	Phil Ochs - Here's to State of Mississippi .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

And here's a website with lyrics and chords, if you want to sing a Phil Ochs song today. It's also what would have been my grandmother Helen Barnes Welsch's 98th birthday!

Song of 28

Yesterday, after twenty-eight years on earth, & after several victorious games of indoor bowling, Miss Grainne Proinseas & I sat down around a hookah & split a forty ounce bottle of Budweiser, & wrote upon this large piece of paper some accumulated wisdom. I find this advice may be helpful not just to those who have not yet reached this weathered age, but also to our elders who may have forgotten. (Clicking on the image will make it full-screen.)

Also, for your convenience, I have uploaded it as a book on Scribd.

Song of 28

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEW TRAVEL CORRESPONDENT COSMO P. WERNICKY BALL

Gee; If you were here I would probably look something like this:

Some Other People We Know might look like this:

Some Day You And Me Gonna Rule The World:


I Hope You Are Celebrating: