REFERENCES TO WATER, THE OCEAN AND SHIPS IN THE SONGS OF PHIL OCHS

One More Parade - "So willing to go and die upon a foreign shore"

The Thresher - the whole song, which is about a submarine, the USS Thresher (SSN-593)

Talkin' Vietnam Blues - "Sailing over to Vietnam"

Power and the Glory - "the valleys and the rivers and the plains" "the California shore"

Celia - "the Filipino shore" "She waits upon the island now, a prisoner of the sea"

Knock on the Door - "On the Soviet shores" "Look over the oceans"

Talkin' Cuban Crisis - "Swimmin' in the sea" "Put our ships along the Cuban shores" "Let's sink Cuba into the sea"

I Ain't Marching Anymore - "United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore"

That Was The President - "As the angry seas have struck upon the sand"

Hills of West Virginia - "the Ohio River sang" "like a cloudy, cloudy sea" 

Days of Decision - "warnings of flood"

Here's To The State Of Mississippi - "If you drag her muddy river" "drowning in an ocean of decay"

Bracero - "Wade into the river, through the rippling shallow waters"

Cops of the World - "We've rammed in your harbor and tied to your port"

(The Marines Have Landed On The Shores Of) Santo Domingo - all throughout the song are references to the sea and the shore

Changes - "the rolling river shores of changes"

I've Had Her - "And by the beach a lady sails a ship without a sail", all of the second verse

Pleasures of the Harbor - all of the song, which is about sailors and inspired by the movie 'The Long Voyage Home'

Crucifixion - "So he stands on the sea and shouts to the shore"

Tape From California - "A sailor from the sea" 

Joe Hill - "over from Sweden shores" "As Joe come a sailing through"

Floods of Florence - title/chorus, "Now just an echo of Spanish seas"

William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed - "the boats were tossed about"

The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns - all of the song, which like the Thresher is about a submarine, this time the USS Scorpion (SSN-589)

Another Age - "drowning in a shallow sea" 

Boy In Ohio - "Creek was running by the road"

Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Me - "they live by the sea"

Basket in the Pool - title/chorus, "I've been on the ocean swimming"

No More Songs - "I loved her as the sea sings sadly" "A whale is on the beach, he's dying" "A white boat in the sand"

Bwatue - all of the song, which talks about canoeing down a river

What Are You Fighting For? - "sail across the sea"

On My Way - "when those chilly lake winds blow" "all along the Southern shore"

I'll Be There - "When the river of rebellion overflows" "blowing out of every distant shore"

Never Again - "From the China sea to the USA" "every man on every shore"