Jim Dean Of Indiana-Phil Ochs

[ti:Jim Dean Of Indiana] [ar:Phil Ochs] [al:An Introduction To Phil Ochs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jim Dean Of Indiana - Phil Ochs [00:25.19]It was on an Indiana farm [00:27.94] [00:29.99]In the middle of the country [00:31.98] [00:34.69]Growin' in the fields of grain [00:36.73] [00:38.68] Jim Dean of Indiana [00:40.86] [00:46.76]His mother died when he was a boy [00:49.88] [00:51.87]His father was a stranger [00:53.83] [00:56.57]Marcus Winslow took him in [00:58.86] [01:00.86]Nobody seemed to want him [01:03.92] [01:09.25]The hired man sang like a storm [01:12.00] [01:14.33]Sometimes he'd beat him [01:16.27] [01:17.87]'Cause he would never do the chores [01:20.80] [01:23.21]He was lost in dreaming [01:25.95] [01:31.27]He never seemed to find a play [01:34.13] [01:36.25]With the flatlands and the farmers [01:38.33] [01:40.98]So he had to leave one day [01:43.19] [01:45.30]He said to be an actor [01:48.05] [01:53.38]Once he'd come back to the farm [01:56.12] [01:58.34]With starlets from the stages [02:00.46] [02:02.25]They locked themselves inside his room [02:05.16] [02:07.44]The people turned their faces [02:10.03] [02:15.68]A neighbor ran from the movie house [02:18.81] [02:21.08]Chickens they were scattered [02:22.73] [02:24.97]He swore he saw upon the screen [02:27.74] [02:29.45]Jim Dean of Indiana [02:32.55] [02:38.03]He played a boy without a home [02:40.76] [02:43.16]Torn with no tomorrow [02:44.78] [02:47.66]Reaching out to touch someone [02:49.62] [02:52.21]A stranger in the shadow [02:54.83] [03:00.23]The Winslows left for the movie town [03:03.37] [03:05.51]They drove across the country [03:07.67] [03:09.50]They hoped that he would stay around [03:12.28] [03:14.20]And they hoped he would be friendly [03:17.40] [03:22.94]He talked to them for half an hour [03:25.60] [03:27.69]But he was busy racing [03:29.62] [03:32.12]He left for the Grapevine Road 1 [03:35.15] [03:36.70]They left for Indiana [03:38.86] [03:44.96]Then Marcus heard on the radio [03:47.26] [03:50.12]That a movie star was dying [03:52.32] [03:54.09]He turned the tuner way down low [03:57.34] [03:59.43]So Ortense could go on sleeping [04:02.50] [04:08.18]It was not until they reached the farm [04:11.11] [04:13.29]Where the hired man was waiting [04:15.39] [04:17.39]The wind rushed silent through the grain [04:20.49] [04:22.25]It was just as they had told him [04:26.09] [04:31.20]They buried him just down the road [04:34.24] [04:36.22]A mile from the farm house [04:38.79] [04:41.22]That is where I placed a flower for Jim Dean of Indiana