Pre> b em c7 d em
How long, how long can we go on
F# g b
How long, how long can we go on,
C d
This troubled land may never last
C d em
There is no future in the past

How far, how far have we gone
How far, how far have we gone,
So many battles without a gain (so many struggles have we lost)
So many young men lost in vain. (so many men on the cross)
*chorus*

G d
Why the fear of the coming of the morning?
G em
Why the trembling at the call?
G d
Can't we hear the final warning,
C em
Can't we see the writing on the wall?

So many years before the dawn,
So many years before the dawn,
So many children have never grown
So many cannonballs have flown.
(so many dogs have hid their bone)

So many rains have had to fall,
So many rains have had to fall,
So many storms before the flood
So many rainbows red with blood.

Why the fear of the comin' of the morning?
Why the trembling at the call?
Can't we hear the final warning?
Can't we see the writing on the wall?

How long, how long can we go on
How long, how long can we go on,
This troubled land may never last
There is no future in the past. /pre>

• All My Heroes Are Dead
• As I Walk Alone
• Ballad of The Cuban Invasion
• Bwatue
• Chaplain of The War
• Davey Moore
• Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore
• Encores
• Fallen Star
• Fifty Mile Hike
• Firehouse 35
• First Snow
• Freedom Riders
• Green Hills
• Hands
• Here's to The State of Richard Nixon
• How High's The Watergate
• How Long
• Hunger & Cold
• I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
• I Like Hitler
• It's Been a Long, Long Story
• Just One of Those Days
• Kansas City Bomber
• Keep The Change
• Legends
• Love is a Rainbow
• Maintaining Law & Order
• Monroe Town
• Morning
• My Life
• Never Again
• New Town
• Niko Mchumba Ngombe
• On Her Hand a Golden Ring
• Phil
• Phil Ochs
• Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue & Me
• Pretty Smart on My Part
• Rehearsals for Retirement
• Sailors & Soldiers
• Sing Along With Me
• Take It Out of My Youth
• Talking Plane Disaster
• The Ballad of John Train
• The Ballad of Sonny Liston
• The Confession
• The Day
• The Parade's Still Passing By
• The Sad & Silent Song of a Soldier
• The Shoals of Herring
• Thirsty Boots
• This Old World is Changing Hands
• United Fruit
• Viet Nam
• We Seek No Wider War
• What Are You Fighting For
• When First Unto This Country
• Where There's a Will There's a Way
• Where Were You in Chicago?
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• You Should Have Been Down in Mississppi