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Maintaining Law & Order
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Phil Ochs
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The policemen of the city wear a uniform of blue
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Walkin' within the city's border
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Protecting all the people
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That's what they're paid to do,
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Maintaining law and order.
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You see them walkin' down the street
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Swingin' around the club
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Pistols hangin' loosely from the holster
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And the something of the soldier
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In the shedding of the blood
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Maintaining law and order.
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And at the police academy
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They're trainin' for the day
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Where the rookies are training to be colder
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Learning to be as hard as the hard world they face
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Maintaining law and order.
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Now in many southern cities
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They don't need to use their hands
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Oh, they throw them roughly in the corner
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And tell the other prisoners "here's a nigger-lovin' man"
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While maintaining law and order.
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Now I'll be the first to tell you
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That their pay is not the best
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For they all have a wife and must support her
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So the gamblers and the prostitutes pay them the rest
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While they maintain law and order.
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These are bitter words of warning
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And they have to leave you sad
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Cause a cop may save my life tomorrow
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But it's really for the good man that I'm singing about the bad
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Who are maintaining law and order.
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Now they ask for greater power
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From the bottom to the top
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Their demands daily growing bolder
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But who maintain the police and who maintain the cops
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While they maintain law law and order.
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