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"The Ballad of John Henry Faulk" Videos
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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.
Hey, you blacklist, you blacklist, I've seen what you have done.
I've seen the men you've ruined and the lives you've tried to run,
But the one thing that I've found is, the only ones you spare
Are those that do not have a brain, or those that do not care.
And you men who point your fingers and spread your lies around,
You men who left your souls behind and drag us to the ground,
You can put my name right down there, I will not try to hide --
For if there's one man on the blacklist, I'll be right there by his side.
For I'd rather go hungry to beg upon the streets
Than earn my bread on dead men's souls and crawl beneath your feet.
And I will not play your hater's game and hate you in return,
For it's only through the love of man the blacklist can be burned.
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Singles
142 songs
- Love Me, I'm a Liberal 2006
- Draft Dodger Rag 2006
- When I'm Gone 2006
- What Are You Fighting For 2006
- Here's to The State of Mississippi 2006
- Too Many Martyrs 2006
- No More Songs 2006
- Knock on The Door 2006
- That's What I Want to Hear 2006
- Men Behind The Guns 2006
- Ballad of William Worthy 2006
- Spanish Civil War Song 2006
- In The Heat of The Summer 2006
- The War is Over 2006
- Bound for Glory 2006
- Remember Me 2006
- Tape from California 2006
- Going Down to Mississipi 2006
- Bracero 2006
- Rehearsals for Retirement 2006
- Do What I Have to Do 2006
- The Ballad of Alferd Packer 2006
- Cross My Heart 2006
- My Life 2006
- What's That I Hear? 2007
- Celia 2006
- Christine Keeler 2006
- Lou Marsh 2006
- Where There's a Will There's a Way 2006
- William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park & Escapes Unscathed 2006
- The Iron Lady 2006
- Links on The Chain 2006
- The Ballad of John Train 2006
- Talking Vietnam 2006
- A.M.A. Song 2007
- Miranda 2006
- The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns 2006
- The Sad & Silent Song of a Soldier 2006
- Half a Century High 2006
- Days of Decision 2006
- A Toast to Those Who Are Gone 2006
- That Was The President 2006
- Talking Birmingham Jam 2006
- Gas Station Women 2006
- The World Began in Eden & Ended in Los Angeles 2006
- When in Rome 2006
- I'm Tired 2006
- The Thresher 2006
- Another Age 2006
- As I Walk Alone 2006
- Automation Song 2006
- Ballad of Oxford 2006
- Basket in The Pool 2006
- Talking Cuban Crisis 2006
- The Shoals of Herring 2006
- I'll Be There 2006
- I've Had Her 2006
- William Moore 2006
- Cops of The World 2006
- Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore 2006
- I Like Hitler 2006
- The Hills of West Virginia 2006
- United Fruit 2006
- Where were you in Chicago? 2007
- Bwatue 2006
- Chaplain of The War 2006
- Colored Town 2006
- Davey Moore 2006
- Encores 2006
- Fallen Star 2006
- Fifty Mile Hike 2006
- Firehouse 35 2006
- First Snow 2006
- Freedom Riders 2006
- Green Hills 2006
- Hands 2006
- Hazard, Kentucky 2006
- How High's The Watergate 2006
- How Long 2006
- Hunger & Cold 2006
- I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night 2006
- I Kill Therefore I Am 2006
- If I Knew 2006
- It's Been a Long, Long Story 2006
- Jim Dean of Indiana 2006
- Just One of Those Days 2006
- Kansas City Bomber 2006
- Keep The Change 2006
- Legends 2006
- Love is a Rainbow 2006
- Maintaining Law & Order 2006
- Monroe Town 2006
- My Kingdom for a Car 2006
- Never Again 2006
- New Town 2006
- Niko Mchumba Ngombe 2006
- All My Heroes Are Dead 2006
- No Christmas in Kentucky 2006
- On Her Hand a Golden Ring 2006
- Another Country 2006
- On My Way 2006
- One More Parade 2006
- One Way Ticket Home 2006
- Bach, Beethoven, Mozart Me 2006
- Paul Crump 2006
- Ballad of Medgar Evers 2006
- Phil 2006
- Phil Ochs 2006
- Ballad of The Cuban Invasion 2006
- Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue & Me 2006
- Ringing of Revolution 2006
- Rivers of The Blood 2006
- Sailors & Soldiers 2006
- Sing Along With Me 2006
- Spaceman 2006
- Take It Out of My Youth 2006
- Talkin' Pay Tv 2006
- Talking Plane Disaster 2006
- Ten Cents a Coup 2006
- That's The Way It's Gonna Be 2006
- The Ballad of Billie Sol 2006
- The Ballad of John Henry Faulk 2006
- The Ballad of Sonny Liston 2006
- The Ballad Of U.S. Steel 2007
- The Confession 2006
- The Day 2006
- The Doll House 2006
- The Floods of Florence 2006
- The Harder They Fall 2006
- The Marines Have Landed on The Shores of Santo Domingo 2006
- The Parade's Still Passing By 2006
- The Passing of My Life 2006
- The Trial 2006
- Thirsty Boots 2006
- This Old World is Changing Hands 2006
- Time Was 2006
- Viet Nam 2006
- We Seek No Wider War 2006
- When First Unto This Country 2006
- You Can't Get Stoned Enough 2006
- You Should Have Been Down in Mississppi 2006
- Your Eyes Will Taste Of The Flowers 2007
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