Maintaining Law & Order by Phil Ochs
The policemen of the city wear a uniform of blue
Walkin' within the city's border
Protecting all the people
That's what they're paid to do,
Maintaining law and order.
You see them walkin' down the street
Swingin' around the club
Pistols hangin' loosely from the holster
And the something of the soldier
In the shedding of the blood
Maintaining law and order.
And at the police academy
They're trainin' for the day
Where the rookies are training to be colder
Learning to be as hard as the hard world they face
Maintaining law and order.
Now in many southern cities
They don't need to use their hands
Oh, they throw them roughly in the corner
And tell the other prisoners "here's a nigger-lovin' man"
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