Legendární americký folkový písničkář (voc, g) a kultovní osobnost. Narozen v r. 1940 v texaském El Pasu. Začínal jako novinář (vystudoval žurnalistiku). Počátkem 60. let se objevuje v N.Y.C., kde ho výrazně ovlivňuje Bob Dylan. Na rozdíl od něho...

Píseň: Bullets of Mexico (bonus track)

Interpret:
Phil Ochs
Album:
All The News That´s Fit To Sing
The peons of Mexico long have known suffering and pain
Zapata and Villa have died there, fighting in vain
Rube'n Jaramillo kept up the tradition 
He fought for the land once again
He lived for the land
And there on the land he was slain


A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man 
Who had lived by the gun
But all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo 
All the work that he's done


The greedy capiques have stolen and plundered the land
With pistoleros they ruled with a cold iron hand
The poor campesinos could stand it no longer
resistance was starting to grow
Jaramillo decided to fight for a new Mexico


A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man 
Who had lived by the gun
But all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo 
All the work that he's done


For twenty long years he fought 
And he struggled and tried
Epifania, his wife, always there at his side
Often surrounded, he always was hounded
They searched for him near, far, and wide
A man of deep sorrow, but also a man of deep pride


A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man 
Who had lived by the gun
But all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo 
All the work that he's done


Two thousand peasants he led to their long-promised land
And the army's revenge killed the wife 
And the sons and the man
His assasins rejoiced with their whiskey and women 
They laughed and they danced on his grave
Now the land waits again for another to ride on the waves


A forty-five bullet has ended the life of a man 
Who had lived by the gun
But all of the bullets of Mexico cannot undo 
All the work that he's done