Still in my mind the definitive collection of the Professor’s work. Assembled after he had been found by a musicologist sweepin up in front of a New Orleans record shop. The fates provided. An original universal treasure!
In this song Mr. Ochs floats on waves of a universal patriotism, with his fingers on the verge of nearly exploding, in the drama of the timeless times.
Not sure how he got hooked up duetting with Buck Owens but here you go.
“Fill her up with love please won’t you Mister, Just the high test, that’s what I used to say, but that was before I lost my baby, I’ll have a dollar’s worth of regular today.”
“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life.” ”
