Music Video: "Yuba City" by U Utah Phillips - Classic Protest Song about "Invisible" Farmworkers... Nameless People... Chords and Lyrics and Behind the Music...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nll1hOOXFIk

Me Singing This Song...

Yuba City by U Utah Phillips
(A Farming Town between Chico and Sacramento on Highway 99 in California...) Based on a True Story...

 A                 E
I came into Yuba as soon as I read
   D                        A
Of all of those twenty-five hobos found dead
  A                       D
I came in to find out if one of the slain
            A           E           A
Could have answered to my brother's name
   A                        E
It might be your brother, I just couldn't say
   D                         A
We hire lots of floaters who work by the day;
    A                    D
Now I see his photo they might be the same
      A         E           A
But I never did ask him his name

           A                   E
Chorus: If I had a list and if I only knew
    E                          A
I'd write down their names and sing them to you
    A                    D
And when I got done, I'd sing them again
         A             E         A
So you'd all know each one had a name
 A                    E
He had a room and ran out on the rent
 D                       A
Hired on a crew, I don't know where he went
   A                  D
If I knew his boss, I might make a claim
      A          E             A
But I never did write down his name

   A                         E
He stopped for a drink every now and again
 D                             A
Didn't look no different than hundreds of men;
    A                          D
You know these old winos, they all look the same
   A         E           A
No reason to ask him his name
   A                         E
It might have been Shorty, a feller I knew
   D                              A
We bunked in the empties when the season was through
    A                         D
You know, I been thinking, it sure is a shame
  A         E           A
I never did ask him his name

   A                  E
We always abandon the old for the new
    D                      A
And second-hand people get thrown away, too;
  A                       D
I know it won't help, but still it explains
    A         E            A
Why no one remembers their names

We visited Yuba City Twice. Once for a Concert at the College by Anoushka Shankar... and the Other Time was Outdoors on a Hot Summer Night... Carlos Santana and The WHO...

Utah Singing the Song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjjpsizJ0U

Behind the Music: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcEGGkrn9Q

and on Wiki - they Have the actual names on a List!

Juan Vallejo Corona (February 7, 1934 – March 4, 2019) was a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County, California in 1971. At the time, his crimes were among the most notorious in U.S. history. Until the discovery of Dean Corll's victims in 1973, he was the deadliest known American serial killer.

Victims[edit]

All of Corona's victims were middle-aged Caucasian male drifters between the ages of 47 and 64 (except 3), most of them had criminal records and all but one were stabbed or slashed with a knife or machete.

Victims (charged)

Number	Name	Age	Death Date	Method of Killing
1	John Joseph Haluka	52	February 25, 1971 – May 11, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
2	Sigurd E. "Pete" Beierman	62	February 25, 1971 – May 11, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
3	John Doe (4th victim found)	Unknown	February 25, 1971 – May 11, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
4	John Doe (7th victim found)	Unknown	February 25, 1971 – May 11, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
5	William Emery Kamp	62	February 26, 1971 – May 12, 1971	Shot in the head w/ a 9 mm.
6	Clarence Hocking	53	February 26, 1971 – May 12, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
7	John Doe (10th victim found)	Unknown	February 26, 1971 – May 12, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
8	John Doe (12th victim found)	Unknown	February 26, 1971 – May 12, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
9	Albert Leon "Scratchy" Hayes	58	February 27, 1971 – May 13, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
10	Warren Jerome Kelley	62	On or around March 30, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
11	John Henry Jackson	64	May 3, 1971 - May 14, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
12	Joseph J. Maczak	54	April 26, 1971 – May 21, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
13	Mark Beverly Shields	56	On or around April 28, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
14	Donald Dale "Red" Smith	60	April 30, 1971 – May 11, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
15	James Wylie Howard	64	May 1, 1971 – May 13, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
16	Sam Bonafiede (a.k.a. Joe Carriveau)	55	On or around May 6, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
17	Edward Martin Cupp	43	May 9, 1971 – May 13, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
18	Charles Levy Fleming	67	On or around May 11, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
19	Jonah Raggio Smallwood	56	On or around May 12, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
20	Elbert J.T. Riley	45	On or around May 12, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
21	Lloyd Wallace Wenztel	60	May 14, 1971 – May 22, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
22	Paul Buel Allen	59	On or around May 15, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
23	Raymond Reand Muchache	47	On or around May 18, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
24	Kenneth Edward Whitacre	40	On or around May 19, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.
25	Melford Everett Sample	59	On or around May 21, 1971	Stabbed/slashed w/ a knife or machete.

Larimer Street by Utah Phillips... (They're Running The Bums Out Of Town) - Chords, Lyrics

Larimer Street by Utah Phillips

Verse:
A                               D
Your bulldozers rolling through my part of town
A                               E
 The iron ball swings and knocks it all down,
A                               D
 You knocked down my flophouse and you knocked down my bars
A                                E  A
 And black-topped it over to park all your cars.

Chorus:
A                             D
 And where will I go, and where can I stay?
A                               E
 You knocked down the skid row and hauled it away,
A                              D
 I'll flag a fast rattler and ride it on down, boys,
A                           E A
 They're running the bums out of town.

Old Maxie the tailor is closing his doors,
 There ain't nothing left in the secondhand stores,
 You knocked down my hock shop and the big Harbor Lights
 And the old Chinese cafe that was open all night.

Chorus

You ran out the hookers who worked on the street
 And built a big club where the playboys can meet.
 My bookie joint closed when your cops made a raid,
 But you built a new hall for the stock market trade.

Chorus

These little storekeepers they don't have a chance
 With the big uptown bankers a-calling the dance,
 With their suit-and-tie restaurants that's all owned by Greeks
 And the counterfeit hippies and their plastic boutiques.

Chorus

Now I'm finding out there's just one kind of war,
 It's the one going on 'tween the rich and the poor.
 Don't know a lot about what you'd call class
 But the upper and middle can all kiss my ass.

Chorus