Jim dean of indiana lyrics

Artist  : Phil ochs 
Song : Jim dean of indiana
 
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It was on an indiana farm in the middle of the
country
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Growin’ in the fields of grain, jim dean of
indiana

His mother died when he was a boy, his father was
a stranger
Marcus winslow took him in, nobody seemed to want
him
The hired man sang like a storm(? ), sometimes
he’d beat him
’cause he would never do the chores, he was lost
in dreaming

He never seemed to find a play with the flatlands
and the farmers
So he had to leave one day, he said to be an
actor
Once he’d come back to the farm with starlets
from the stages
They locked themselves inside his room, the
people turned their faces

A neighbor ran from the movie house, chickens
they were scattered
He swore he saw upon the screen, jim dean of
indiana
He played a boy without a home, torn with no
tomorrow
Reaching out to touch someone, a stranger in the
shadow

The winslows left for the movie town, they drove
across the country
They hoped that he would stay around and they
hoped he would be friendly
He talked to them for half an hour but he was
busy racing
He left for the grapevine road[1], they left for
indiana

Then marcus heard on the radio that a movie star
was dying
He turned the tuner way down low, so ortense
could go on sleeping
It was not until they reached the farm where the
hired man was waiting
The wind rushed silent through the grain, it was
just as they had told him

They buried him just down the road, a mile from
the farm house
That is where I placed a flower for jim dean of
indiana.


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