The Ballad of Oxford, Mississippi Phil Ochs

[Intro]
I'll do another one
You know, I noticed Johnny Stuart's song "Johnny Reb"
Is going great guns down here
So um, got a song about the South I hope will go down as well down here
Johnny Reb
Yeah, I heard
Here's a song called "The Ballad of Oxford, Mississippi"

[Verse 1]
I'll sing you a song about a southern town
Where the devil had his rule
When marshals faced an angry mob
To send one man to school
His name was Jimmy Meredith
And the tide he helped to turn
For he chose to stay that terrible day
To keep his right to learn

[Chorus]
There was blood, red blood, on their hands
Yellow dirt on their clothes
What they thought they were doing
Only God and the devil knows
There was hate, cold hate, in their hearts
Shot from their soul like a gun
And as they threw their stones and bricks
They screamed, "See what you have done"