I opened the paper, there was your picture
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand
I couldn't believe it, the paper was shakin'
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand

I know I'm gonna spend the rest of my lifetime wondering why
You found yourself so badly hurt you had to die

I opened the paper, there was your picture
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand
The phone started ringing, had I heard about it?
I shook every time I heard it ring
What was my reaction? I put the phone down
That was the only news that was fit to sing

They ask about dylan, about macdougal street and third
Question piled on question and each question more absurd

I opened the paper, there was your picture
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand

**
Oh, I remember there but for fortune,
There but for fortune you and I would go
Fortune turned it's back on you,
Or so it must have seemed to you,
Christ alone knows what was the final blow

The last time I saw you, the last time I saw you,
Bleeker street outside the other end
I told you I'd see you, I got distracted
I never saw your face again

I heard that you were feeling stronger every day
I heard that you were well with good things on their way

Then I opened the paper, there was your picture
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand.

(repeat from **)

• 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?
• You Can't Get Stoned Enough
• You Should Have Been Down in Mississppi