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Love Me, I'm A Liberal
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Phil Ochs
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I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
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Tears ran down my spine
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I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
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As though I'd lost a father of mine
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But Malcolm X got what was coming
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He got what he asked for this time
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So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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I go to civil rights rallies
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And I put down the old D.A.R.
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I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
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I hope every colored boy becomes a star
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But don't talk about revolution
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That's going a little bit too far
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So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
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My faith in the system restored
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I'm glad the commies were thrown out
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Of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
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I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
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As long as they don't move next door
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So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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The people of old Mississippi
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Should all hang their heads in shame
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I can't understand how their minds work
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What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
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But if you ask me to bus my children
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I hope the cops take down your name
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So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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I read New republic and Nation
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I've learned to take every view
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You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
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I feel like I'm almost a Jew
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But when it comes to times like korea
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There's no one more red, white and blue
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So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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I vote for the democtratic party
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They want the U.N. to be strong
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I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts
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He sure gets me singing those songs
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I'll send all the money you ask for
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But don't ask me to come on along
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So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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Once I was young and impulsive
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I wore every conceivable pin
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Even went to the socialist meetings
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Learned all the old union hymns
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But I've grown older and wiser
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And that's why I'm turning you in
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So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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