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  • Am c em g
  • On the streets of new york city when the hour was getting late
  • (same chords)
  • Young men armed with knives and guns, young men armed with hate
  • Am c d g
  • And lou marsh stepped between them and died there in his tracks
  • (same chords)
  • For one man is no army when the city turns its back
  • Am c g d
  • Now the streets are empty, now the streets are dark
  • Em g am a
  • So keep an eye on shadows and never pass the park
  • For the city is a jungle when the law is out of sight
  • Death lurks in el barrio with the orphans of the night
  • He left behind a chamber of a church he served so long
  • For he learned the prayers of distant men will never right the wrongs
  • His church became an alley and his pulpit was the street
  • He made his congregation from the boys he used to meet
  • There were two gangs approaching in spanish harlem town
  • The smell of blood was in the air, the challenge was laid down
  • He felt their blinding hatred, and he tried to save their lives
  • And the answer that they gave him was their fists and feet and knives
  • Will lou marsh lie forgotten in his cold and silent grave?
  • Will his memory still linger on, in those he tried to save?
  • All of us who knew him will now and then recall
  • And shed a tear on poverty, tombstone of us all /pre>

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