Name: I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Duration: 2 min 43 s
Channel: Phil Ochs
Description: "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" is a song by Bob T Guevara.

I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

Bob T Guevara

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Bob T Guevara

Hey there folks, this is Bob T. Guevara, making old and new music for all of you. Political, poetical, sensitive, funny, and whatever else you like.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Cover Songs

Peak in subgenre #72

Author

Phil Ochs

Uploaded

December 12, 2008

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MP3

MP3 2.5 MB • 128 kbps • 2:43

Story behind the song

Phil's anti-war song became sort of biographical to me when I quit the army and ain't marchin' anymore eighter.

Lyrics

I AIN'T MARCHIN' ANYMORE by Phil Ochs

capo 3rd fret

      G              C         D
Oh I marched to the battle of New Orleans
        G          C             D
At the end of the early British war
     G                  C
The young land started growing
     F                   Em
The young blood started flowing
    C       Am           D
But I ain't marchin' anymore

For I've killed my share of Indians
In a thousand different fights
I was there at the Little Big Horn
I heard many men lying I saw many more dying
But I ain't marchin' anymore

(chorus)
      G                F              C
It's always the old to lead us to the war
      C         Am       D
It's always the young to fall
    G                              F             C
Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun
              Am       D
Tell me is it worth it all

For I stole California from the Mexican land
Fought in the bloody Civil War
Yes I even killed my brothers
And so many others But I ain't marchin' anymore

For I marched to the battles of the German trench
In a war that was bound to end all wars
Oh I must have killed a million men
And now they want me back again
But I ain't marchin' anymore

(chorus)

For I flew the final mission in the Japanese sky
Set off the mighty mushroom roar
When I saw the cities burning I knew that I was learning
That I ain't marchin' anymore

Now the labor leader's screamin'
when they close the missile plants,
United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore,
Call it "Peace" or call it "Treason,"
Call it "Love" or call it "Reason,"
But I ain't marchin' any more,
No I ain't marchin' any more

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