Saturday morning sing-a-long...

I'm not a roaring music buff, nor was I amongst the living during the 1960s. However, in a recent post over at Go Lassie Go, Joan mentioned the American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, who I for one had never heard of, never mind forgotten. Much of this may well be owned to his early drink-sodden death in 1976, at the age of only 35. Ochs was of the vintage of civil rights protest and anti-Vietnam war rallies and his lyrics speak to those political commitments. Interest snagged by the rendition of "I ain't marchin' anymore" Joan includes, a bit of further rummaging revealed that I'd actually heard Christy Moore singing "Changes" before, which unbeknownst to me was written by Ochs. My search also yielded this caustically jaunty song, "Outside of a small circle of friends". One commenter describes it as a "social apathy ditty". A extremely well-turned and apt description of its sunny mordancy, I'd say...