Magpie
David Buskin
Sammy Walker
Lauren Agnelli and Dave Rave
Peter Yarrow
Iain Matthews
Arlo Guthrie
SONiA Rutstein
Tom Paxton
Nancy Tucker
The Roches
Rod MacDonald
Greg Greenway
John Wesley Harding
Eric Andersen
Kim and Reggie Harris
Pat Humphries
John Gorka
Sid Griffin & Billy Bragg
Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen
Megon McDonough & Christine Lavin & Frank Christian
Dave Van Ronk
David Massengill
Katy Moffatt
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie
Anne Hills
Rex Fowler
Karen Savoca
[Verse 1]
It was on an Indiana farm
In the middle of the country
Growing in the fields of grain
Jim Dean of Indiana
[Verse 2]
His mother died when he was a boy
His father was a stranger
Marcus Winslow took him in
Nobody seemed to want him
[Verse 3]
The hired man sang like a storm
Sometimes he would beat him
'Cause he would never do the chores
He was lost in dreaming
[Verse 4]
He never seemed to find a place
With the flatlands and the farmer
So he had to leave one day
He said to be an actor
[Verse 5]
Oncе he came back to the farm
With starlеts from the stages
They locked themselves inside his room
The people turned their faces
[Verse 6]
A neighbor run from the movie house
Chickens, they were scattered
He swore he saw upon the screen
Jim Dean of Indiana
[Verse 7]
He played a boy without a home
Torn with no tomorrow
Reaching out to touch someone
A stranger in the shadow
[Verse 8]
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
[Verse 9]
He talked to them for half an hour
But he was busy racing
He left for the Grapevine road
They left for Indiana
[Verse 10]
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
[Verse 11]
Was not until they reached the farm
Where the hired man was waiting
The wind was silent through the grain
It was just like they had told him
[Verse 12]
They buried him just down the road
Just a mile from the farmhouse
And that is where Phil placed a flower
For Jim Dean of Indiana
Jim Dean of Indiana was written by Phil Ochs.