Simon And Garfunkel - 7 O'clock News/silent Night Lyrics
This is the early evening edition of the news.The recent fight in the house of representatives was over the open housingSection of the civil rights bill.Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of theMeasure without the votes of their strongest supporters.President johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discriminationBy everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the startAnd everyone in congress knew it.A compromise was painfully worked out in the house judiciary committee.In los angeles today comedian lenny bruce died of what was believed to be anOverdoes of narcotics.Bruce was 42 years old.Dr. martin luther king says he does not intend to cancel plans for an openHousing march sunday into the chicago suburb of cicero.Cook county sheriff richard ogleby asked king to call off the march and thePolice in cicero said they would ask the national guard to be called outIf it is held.King, now in atlanta, georgia, plans to return to chicago tuesday.In chicago richard speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was broughtBefore a grand jury today for indictment.The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their chicago apartment.In washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of theHouse committee on un-american activities continued its probe into anti-Viet nam war protests.Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chantingAnti-war slogans.Former vice-president richard nixon says that unless there is a substantialIncrease in the present war effort in viet nam, the u.s. should look forwardTo five more years of war.In a speech before the convention of the veterans of foreign wars in new york,Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest singleWeapon working against the u.s.Thats the 7 oclock edition of the news,Goodnight.Silent nightHoly nightAll is calmAll is brightRound yon virgin mother and childHoly infant so tender and mildSleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.
