"Too Many Martyrs", also known as "Ballad Of Medgar Evers", is a song composed by American folk singers Bob Gibson and Phil Ochs. It appears as "Too Many Martyrs" on Phil Ochs's debut 'official' album "All the News That's Fit to Sing" released in 1964. A live version by Ochs with the title "Ballad Of Medgar Evers" recorded at the Newport Folk Festival, 26-28 Jul 1963, first appeared on the 1964 album "Newport Broadside". Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2

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