OXFORD, Miss. – Way back in 1964, the year of “Freedom Summer” and the disappearance and death of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, the “singing journalist” Phil Ochs offered this elegy:
“Here’s to the land you’ve torn out the heart of
Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of”
More recently an anonymous writer who calls himself the “Socialist Wizard” composed and published a new version of Ochs’ classic with President Trump taking Mississippi’s place. In the song, the singer asks that the president find “another country to be part of”—another sign perhaps of what writer Peter Applebome has called “the Americanization of Dixie.”
Read more at…Phil Ochs wanted Mississippi to “find another country to be part of.” Now it’s the very heart of America
Celebrating Phil Ochs 
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