Phil Ochs - In The Heat Of The Summer Lyrics

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In the heat of the summer

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When the pavements were burning

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The soul of a city was ravaged in the night

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After the city sun was sinkin'Dm Gm Dm

Now no one knows how it started

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Why the windows were shattered

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But deep in the dark someone set the spark

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And then it no longer mattered.

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Down the streets they were rumbling

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All the tempers were ragin

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Oh where oh where are the white silver tongues

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Who forgot to listen to the warnings?

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On and On come the angry

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No longer following reason

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And all the stores were the target now

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Where just the other day they were buyin

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Drunk with the memory of the ghetto

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Drunk with the lure of the looting

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And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks

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Asking "Are you looking for trouble?"

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"No no no" moaned the mayor.

F A

"It's not the way of the order.

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"Oh stay in your homes please leave us alone

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"We'll be glad to talk in the morning."

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"For shame for shame" wrote the papers.

F A

"Why the hurry to your hunger?

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"Now the rubble's resting on your broken streets

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"So you see what your rage has unraveled."

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Baricades sadly were risin

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Bricks were heavily flyin

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And the loudspeaker drowned like a whisperin' sound

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When compared to the angered emotions

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And when the fury was over

F A

And the Shame was replacing the anger.

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So wrong so wrong but we've been down so long

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And we had to make somebody listen

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In the heat of the summer......

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