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Lou Marsh
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Phil Ochs
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AM C EM G
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On the streets of New York city when the hour was getting late
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Young men armed with knives and guns, young men armed with hate
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AM C D G
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And Lou Marsh stepped between them and died there in his tracks
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(same chords)
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For one man is no army when the city turns it's back
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AM C G D
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Now the streets are empty, now the streets are dark
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Em G Am A
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So keep an eye on shadows and never pass the park
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For the city is a jungle when the law is out of sight
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Death lurks in El Barrio with the orphans of the night
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He left behind a chamber of a church he served so long
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For he learned the prayers of distant men will never right the wrongs
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His church became an alley and his pulpit was the street
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He made his congregation from the boys he used to meet
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There were two gangs approaching in spanish Harlem town
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The smell of blood was in the air, the challenge was laid down
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He felt their blinding hatred, and he tried to save their lives
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And the answer that they gave him was their fists and feet and knives
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Will Lou Marsh lie forgotten in his cold and silent grave?
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Will his memory still linger on, in those he tried to save?
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All of us who knew him will now and then recall
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And she'd a tear on poverty, tombstone of us all
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