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Law & Order
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I Fought the Law - The Clash
SPEAKER_00In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.
SPEAKER_20I've got the double head, the double water, I've both the double head, the double water, I bought the double head, the low one, I've got the low head, the double, the door, I've pulled the door, the door, I've pulled the door, the door, I bought the door, the door, I've pulled the door, I bought the dog, the door, I bought the door, the door, I felt the door.
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SPEAKER_01As you may have already guessed, this episode is called Law and Order. And in part one of this little role, we've got songs about criminal activity and being on the lamb. We've got things regarding prison and jail and harder and other fun and more legal part three about freedom. Now, before we go any further, I'd like to take care of a little bit of business in the way of thank you. First to my brother Land and his lovely and talented wife, Sarah, for their support and encouragement in getting this podcast up and running again. And of course, their fantastic music. And lastly to Al Matthew, the program director and the go to WFID for the DJ really, really passionate for this project. So thank you to all of you out there. Now back to the important thing. We've got an old hungry band called Go Gold with a very long crime from the 2005 album Underground. Now I really like these guys because their sound is so accelerated. Others might be downright. And it really reflects the various areas where the lead singer songwriter, uh, Eugene Hott grew up. Uh that was the Soviet Union. Uh, his family had to move very quickly after the uh nuclear power plant down the road exploded. Uh then they moved on to uh other places in Eastern Europe, Romania, Hungary, and then he finally ended up in New York City. So uh there's all kinds of different uh musical influence that are kind of smooth together in their music. After that, we've got Hate No Crime, which is an outtake from the recording sessions for the replacement of the third album, Hoopman. And that was released in 1979. Next we have the first of a couple more clash tunes, and some people might say there's a little too much clash in this segment. And second of all, it is my podcast. So it off, you wanker! Um this one is from the 1980 album, Sandinista, and it's called Police on My Back. Uh following that we go back in time to 1969 with Arlo Guthrie's coming into Los Angeles, or Los Angeles, as he says in the song, from the Running Down the Road album, and we're wrapping up with Julie's been working for the drug squad from the Give Em Enough Rope uh album by the Clash released in 1978. But first we've got some gypsy punk with Gogol, Bordello, and Not a Crime.
Not a Crime - Gogol Bordello
SPEAKER_14Not a crime, all that time, and your time, in your time, and your time for it, what's not that time, and your time, in your time, and your time for it, what's my daughter, nothing, you can't do it.
SPEAKER_28Spices, creation, realisation, naturalization. What are you talking about? Shut about time, rescue while you know today today, it's your time, no time, your time with us, not a crime, your time, in your time, in your time, it was not a crime, not a crime.
Police On My Back - The Clash
SPEAKER_12This is
Dragnet
SPEAKER_12the city of Los Angeles, California. People from 121 countries all the home.
SPEAKER_10The name has been changed to protect the
Coming Into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie
SPEAKER_10ball.
Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad - The Clash
SPEAKER_11Stop it on the pavement, the feathers in her eye. But sooner or later, a new friend will realize. But truth be working for the drug squad, but you just be working for the drug squad.
SPEAKER_20He will look you in the eye.
SPEAKER_11Well, well, she's like a dream, too good to be true. A stash in the back while the tablets go high in the mail, yeah. And everybody, aye, ay, aye. I mean, but someone looking down from that mouth inside. Shouldn't be working for the drug squad, truly working for the drug squad, come on. Greatest memory, the arrest to every drug that had ever been made. It's too long, through it too tall.
SPEAKER_20Every day they are full. A drug squad, the truth we working on a drug squad The bullet in the cell they say. Jukka taka alea ja permanentää tuota totta puuttua tapauks.
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SPEAKER_01And that was the Clash. Julie's been working for the Drug Squad. Coming up in this segment, we have uh an eclectic, uh diverse, some might say, downright weird collection of uh genres, different tunes, bands. Uh, we're starting out with one that I had forgotten about for quite a while until a friend of mine rem uh reminded me of it. And that is Judas Priest Breaking the Law from their 1980 album, British Steel, which I still think has one of the coolest album covers. Uh not of all time, but uh certainly of that era. After that, we've got uh Taking It on the Lamb, we've got The Grateful Dead from their American Beauty album released in 1970, Friend of the Devil. Uh coming up next and continuing with the theme, we have the Steve Miller band Take the Money and Run from Fly Like an Eagle in 76, and then we have uh number for uh our current resident of the Oval Office. It's from the album Excitable Boy from 1978, Warren Zavon with Lawyers, Guns, and Money. I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself. Coming up the next two are uh a little bit unusual. They require a little explanation. The first is by Paul Simon, and it's from his dismal failure of a Broadway musical songs from the Cape Man. The album was released in 1977. The musical is uh a true story about uh a Puerto Rican kid uh that was accused, tried, convicted of murder, a gang murder, in fact, in New York in the 1950s. And the song is called Adios Hermanos, and it is essentially kind of the story of his trial from his point of view. And then rounding out this particular portion of the podcast, the episode, we have uh a band that I've been starting to like a little bit more. I guess I got kind of sick and tired of just the hits, and that's Leonard Skinner. This is not from one of their original uh big albums that w well was that were, I'm sorry, released uh while they were still a band. This was released in 1987, and the album was called Legend. And it was mostly a bunch of oh B-sides, um previously unreleased outtakes, things like that, and it's called The Four Walls of Rayford. But we're starting out with Judas Priest breaking the law.
Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
SPEAKER_20All inside it's so frustrating Cause I drift from town in town. So I might as well there is too much of action in my life.
unknownBreaking the law, breaking the law. Breaking the law, breaking the law.
SPEAKER_20Breaking the law, breaking the law, breaking the law, breaking the law. So much more than the future. I can't even start. I bet you're bringing problems, broken this anger in my heart. You don't know what it's like. You don't have a flu. If you disuse by yourselves, doing the same thing, so Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law.
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Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
unknownit the law, break it the law, break it the law, break it the law, break it the law, break it the law.
SPEAKER_13I lit up from we know I was trailed by twenty pounds. Didn't get to sleep that night till the morning came around. Set out, run, but I take my time. A friend of the devil is a friend of my hand. I get home before daylight, just like getting some sleep tonight. Ran into the temple, baby, only twenty feels. Spent the night in here, drawing a cave up in the hills. Set out running, but I take my time. A friend of the devil is a fan of mine. I get home before daylight. Does my get some sleep to the night? I ran down to the level, but the devil caught me there. Took my twenty dollar bill and it vanished in the air. A friend of the devil is a friend of mine. I get home before daylight. Just might get some sleep tonight. Got two reasons why I cry awake lonely night. The first one's name, Sweet Emmerie, and she's my heart's delight. Second one is prison baby. Sheriff's on my trail. And if he catches up with me, I'll scan my life in jail. Got a wife and cheetah, baby, and the one in Cherokee. First woman say she got my child, but it don't look like me. Set out front up and take my time, a friend. Hide at home before daylight. Just like getting some sleep tonight Got two reasons why I cry a witch only night. First one's name's weep and cheats my heart's life. The second one is prison baby. The sheriff's on my trail. And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in the chill. Got a wife and cheat on baby. The one she ever knew. First one says she got my child, but it don't look like me. Sit out in front of mother, take my time a friend, but devil is a friend of mine. I get home before daylight. Just my death too sweet tonight.
Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
SPEAKER_20Two young brothers win nothing better to do. Here's what happened when they decided to cut those. No, it's just exactly what the fact is. You ain't gonna let those two escape justice.
Lawyers, Guns, and Money - Warren Zevon
SPEAKER_20She was with the Russians too.
SPEAKER_22I was gambling in Havana. I took a little risk. Some lawyers, funds, and money. And I'm down on my look. Oh, Santa Lawyers guns and money.
Adios Hermanos - Paul Simon
SPEAKER_09Angel of Mercy, people are suffering all over the world. Spanish children are taught on their knees to believe. Angel of Mercy, people are suffering, I love the island Mother's Weep Sisters Dream Will I enter the courtroom state of New York, County of New York.
SPEAKER_18Just some spit they scrubbed off the sidewalk. Guilty mama dress Guilty imperfects. Let the cave man for the murder. The electric chair for the greasy pair. Send the judge to the court reporter. Afraid to leave the project To cross into another neighbor. The newspapers and the TV crews well they'd kill you if they could.
SPEAKER_09Angel of mercy, people are suffering along the world. A Spanish boy could be killed every night of the week.
SPEAKER_18Just let some white boy die and the world goes crazy for blood. Latin blood. When I speak of the shackles.
Four Walls of Raiford - Lynyrd Skynyrd
SPEAKER_07When they find me, they must kill me. Oh, Jesus. Again, go back down to the ray. Again, take it.
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SPEAKER_01And that was Leonard Skinnard with the four walls of Rayford. Very pretty song, but uh also a little bit on the heartbreaking side. Still, aside of Leonard Skinner, you don't see a whole lot, which is one of the reasons I included it here. Coming up now, we've got a little bit more of the punishment side of our crime and punishment tale. And of course, no song about being incarcerated, being in prison, being in jail would be complete without including uh Johnny Cash and Folsom Prison Blues. This one is live at Folsom Prison and die in 1968. Coming up after that, we've got a real pioneer of country music that a lot of people don't really know of today. His name is Jimmy Rogers, and he was known uh primarily for his yodels. He was known as the blue yodeler, the singing brakeman, and also as the father of country music. Unlike uh most artists at the time, he became known uh primarily for his recordings, rather than becoming famous through his concerts and then his recordings. Uh this tune is probably familiar to you if you've ever seen the movie Oh Brother, where Art Thou? It's called In the Jail House Now. It was recorded in 1928, and again, that was from a single. After that, we've got another one of the sort of bad boys of country music, and that is Merle Haggard from the album Mama Tried, released in 1968, with a song by the same name, Mama Tried. After that, we're getting a little more modern with, of course, uh, you know me, I'm a Minnesotan, I have to uh include at least some Minnesota groups. So we've got the Jayhawks from their 1986 album by the same name, the Jayhawks. It's also known as the Bunkhouse album, and a song entitled Behind Bars. Next up, we have one that that is really kind of interesting. I thought, or I was going to use rather the Johnny Cash version of this song. And he does have writing credits for this song, and that's the song I Got Stripes. It was released as a single in 1959. However, in doing some of the research for this, I found a very, very, very similar version titled On a Monday. And that one was released in 1943, and it was performed by a gentleman by the name of Huddy Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly. And I almost don't know how Johnny Cash got songwriting credit for the one he did in 1959, because it's awful, awful close to this one by Leadbelly. And then finishing up this part of the podcast, uh, we have proof that uh Genius skips a generation. We have a song called Louisiana Stripes from the album Straight to Hell, released in 2005, and it's by Hank Williams the third. But we're starting off with the man in black himself, Johnny Cash and Folsom Prison Blues.
SPEAKER_06Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
SPEAKER_06I hear the trainer coming, it's rolling around a pen, and I ain't seen the sunshine, so I don't know where I'm stuck in holes in prison, and time keeps dragging on. But that train keeps rolling on down the side and hold. When I was just a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns, but I got a man in Reno just to watch him die. I heard that it was once more. I think my ears end right. I bet I move it on a little farther down the line, far from full to fruit. That's where I want to stay. Oh my blues away.
In the Jailhouse Now - Jimmie Rodgers
SPEAKER_24Who used to steal gambling rub. He thought he was the smartest guy in town. But I found out last Monday that Bob got locked up Sunday. They've got him in the jailhouse way downtown. He's in the jail house now. He's in the jail house now. I told him once or twice to put playing cards and shoes the night. He's in the jail house now. He played a game called Poca. He knuckles with Danny Yoga, but shooting dies was his greatest game. Nice down town and jail, nobody to go his bales. The judge just said that he refused a fight. He's in the jail house now. He's in the jail house now. I told him once or twice to quit playing cause and shoot his night. He's in the jail house now.
SPEAKER_16I or you're not last Tuesday, better names Tuesday.
SPEAKER_24I told her I was the swellest man around. We started to spend my money, then she started to call me honey. We took in every cabaret in town. We're in a jail house now. We're in a jail house now. I tore the judge right to his face, we didn't like to see this place. We're in a jail house now.
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
SPEAKER_03The first thing I remember knowing was a lonesome whistle blowing, and the young'est dream of growing up to rise. On a freight train, leaving town, not knowing where I'm bound. And no one can change my mind, but mama tried. The one and only rebel child from a family meek and mild. My mama seemed to know what lay in store. Despite all my Sunday learning, towards the bat I kept on turning Till Mama couldn't hold me anymore. I turned 21 and prison, doing life without parole. No one could steer me right, but Mama tried, Mama tried, Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied. That leaves only me to blame. Cause Mama tried. She tried to raise me right, but I refused. And I turned 21 in prison, doing life without parole. No one could steer me right, but Mama tried. Mama tried, Mama tried to raise me better. But her pleading I denied. That leaves only me to blame. Cause Mama tried
Behind Bars - The Jayhawks
SPEAKER_03to do that.
On a Monday - Lead Belly
SPEAKER_08On a Tuesday, I was here. On a Wednesday, I tried a ticket. On a Thursday, no matter what goes, it's just almost just
Louisiana Strips - Hank Williams III
SPEAKER_08losy analysts, and they're always chaining me down.
SPEAKER_33I'm in that for ninety-nine years for shooting my wife to the ground. Well she had to love my friend, and that's not right with me. So I grabbed my gun, shot 'em both in the head, and then I threw their ass in the creek. Now I'm doing my time in this bluezy end up in thinking about maybe being free on the day that I'm a dead man. Getting used to being locked in this prison cell, but I always hung those tunes of George Jones to help me through my days of hell. I've done me twenty-five years, and that's alright with me. Cause I got me a lot of damn good friends in this Louisiana penitentiary. Now I'm doing my time in this loozy and up in thinking about maybe being free on the day I'll be walking to feel that fire of the loozy and a danger.
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SPEAKER_01And uh this version is by Roy Hogan and his rainbow writer. Uh he's one of the people that claimed to have written the song. This was a single, and it came out in 1947, and it's called Cocaine Blues. And it actually climbed number 15 on the country music chart in 1948. I picked this version because it's really got a kind of a new bouncy uh um accordion in the background, and I guess you don't normally think of accordions and cocaine. Of course, at this time, cocaine was still a prescription medication. So the song probably didn't have the negative annotations that it has now. Following that, we've got uh tune by an old acquaintance of mine named Johnny Herman. Uh the album is Homeless in the Heart, released in 1996, and the song is a victim of a victimless crime. And after that, we've got yet another tune that I thought was a Johnny Cash tune. The story behind And I don't know when it was really. The only thing I could find out about is I is that it appeared in a number of Broadway and off Broadway. After that, we've had another one that had been around for a long time. It was in literally made animated by Ladelly. However, it had been around for quite a while. Prior to that in it had actually been created all the way back to an English. However, it is I couldn't forget it. Let's apply from Zapelin III, 1970, and Gallows Holy. The one that I chose was by the band, and it's from the album Songs from Big, and that was released in 1968. However, we're starting off with Roy Hogshead and his Rainbow Riders with Cocaine Blues.
Cocaine Blues - Roy Hogsed
SPEAKER_05Early one morning while I'm making a round, took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down. Went right home and I went to bed and stuck that lovin' forty-four beneath my head. Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun. Took a shot of cocaine and away a run. Made a good run, but I ran too slow. They overtook me down in Warez, Mexico. Pain in the hop joint, the smoke in the pill. He said, Willie Lee, your name is not Jack Brown. You're the dirty hack that shut your woman down. Yes, oh yes, my name is Willie. If you got a warrant, just read it to me. Shut her cold, cause she made me sore. I thought I was her daddy, but she had five more. When I was rested, I was dressed in black. Put me on a train and they brought me back. Had no friends to go my bail. They slapped my dry-up carcass in that county jail. Early next morning, about a half past nine. I spied the sheriff coming down the line. Hocked and he caught as he cleared his throat. He said, Come on, you dirty hype into that district court. Into the courtroom, my trials begin. Where I was paneled by twelve honest men. Just before the jury started out, I saw that little judge commence to look about. In about five minutes, and walked a man, holding the verdict in his right hand. The verdict spread in the first degree. I hollered, Lordy, Lordie, have mercy on me. The judge smiled as he picked up his pen. Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin Bent. Ninety-nine years underneath that crown. I'll never forget the day I shot my woman down. Come all you happen lesson under me. Just lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.
Victim of a Victimless Crime - Judd Herrmann
SPEAKER_27A shoebox on the mantle filled with twenty dollar bills. A suitcase packed with marijuana I brought down from the hills. And you and me undraped again with all the curtains drawn. Policeman took positions on the lawn. Whoa, I'm just a victim. I'm a victim of a victimless crime, don't you know? Yeah, I'm just a victim. I was only trying to have a good time. The trial didn't last too long. The ever dance held firm. There wasn't much that I could do Except to sit and squirm. The judge said ten to twenty years this low life needs a cage. And luddly loved a girl still under age. Oh, I'm just a victim. I'm a victim of a victimless crime. Don't you know? Yeah. I'm just a victim. I was only trying to have a good time. I got send up heats for cellmates, they go crazy when I sing. Discuzzy, little bugger scurry over everything. My crucifix, my calendar, my plate of prison. Stew I only kill the ones that cross my photograph of you. Oh, I'm just a victim. I'm a victim of a victimless crime, don't you know? Yeah, I'm just a victim. I was only trying to have a good time. Oh, they took away my honey, my drugs and all my money, and all the bastards gave me back was time. They took away my honey, my drugs and all my money, and all the bastards gave me back was time. All the bastards gave me back was time. I'm just a victim.
25 Minutes to Go - Eddie Clendening
SPEAKER_04I've got twenty-five minutes to go, and the whole town's waiting just to hear me yell. I've got twenty-four minutes to go. I got twenty-three minutes to go, but nobody asked me how I feel. With twenty-one minutes to go. And I sent for the mayor butt. So I left his face and I spit his eye. I got eighteen minutes to go. I've got the breach for the same last soul. And he's talking about the burden, but I'm so cold. I got twelve more minutes to go. Will there exist in the trap that pushes my spine? All the trap and the rope will they work just fine? I got ten more minutes to go. Will I wait on the bar that will set me free? So forget about me. I got eight more minutes to go. My feet on the trail and my head loose. I got five more minutes to go. I got four more minutes to go. I can see the mouths, I can see the skies. I got three more minutes to go. And it's too turn for a man wanna die. I got two more minutes to go. I can see the poses, I can hear the crows. I got one more minute to go. And now I'm swinging in a here I go.
Gallows Pole - Led Zeppelin
SPEAKER_17And you get a little go a lot to be my brother, keep it from the ghetto Brother Rappa who didn't feel like a little go to the ghetto school to keep it from the ghetto.
SPEAKER_20Thank you, Father. Thank you, brother.
Long Black Veil - The Band
SPEAKER_15On a cold dark night, there was someone killed with the town hall light. There were few at the scene, and they all did agree that the man who ran looked a lot like me.
SPEAKER_20The judge said some what is your out of my if you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die. I spoke my word for my life. I have been in the arms of my best friend white. She wants these pills in a long day. She is my brain. She stood in the crowd and shed not tears, but sometimes night when the cold wind moans, in a long black veil, she cries over my bones. In a long black fail. She presents my faith when I went.
SPEAKER_01Coming up in this next segment, we've just got three songs,
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SPEAKER_01and they're all about freedom. Up first, we have The Velvet Underground from their album by the same name, self-titled. It was released in 1969, and that one is called I'm Set Free. Next, we have yet another Minnesota musician, Bob Dylan, from the album Another Side of Bob Dylan, released in 1964, and that's Chimes of Freedom. And then the last song in the set is another Johnny Cash song that probably has the most interesting backstory of all the ones I've played today. Now it was on the album American Five, A Hundred Highways, and it's interesting in that that album was recorded between May and August of 2003. And Johnny died September 12th of 2003. So these were quite literally the last things that he was working on in his life. The album, however, wasn't released till 2006, and I'm not really sure why. The name of the song is I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now. Now that was originally recorded on an album called The Sound of Johnny Cash that was released in 1962. However, if you listen to this version just from his voice and the way he sings the song, you can tell that he knows he's dying. And the song is ostensibly about getting out of prison, being free from the chain gang. But the way Johnny sings it, you also get the feeling that he's talking about being free from a frail and broken body. And it's a very, very moving song. However, we're starting off with The Velvet Underground with I'm Set Free.
I'm Set Free - The Velvet Underground
SPEAKER_20I've been back and now I've said I've said the trans was read by me and now I'm sending.
SPEAKER_25I've been found free. I've been found. Let me tell you people what I found. I saw my head rolling on the ground and now I'm sent precious. I'm set precious. I'm set free to find a new will.
Chimes of Freedom - Bob Dylan
SPEAKER_02Far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken tall We ducked inside the doorway's thunder went crashing. Those majestic bells of bowl struck shadows in the sound Seeming to be the times of freedom flashing Flashing for the warriors Whose strength is not to fight Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed route of flight And for each and every underdog soldier night And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing Through the city's melted furnace Unexpectedly we watched With faces hidden as the walls were tightening As the echo of the wedding bell before the blowing rain dissolved into the bells of the lightning Toll in Father Rebel Tallin Father Rake Toll in Father Luckless They abandoned them for sake Toll in for the outcast Burning constantly at stay And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its palms in naked wonder As the clinging of the church bell blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Thriking for the gentle Striking for the kind Thriking for the guardians and protectors of the mind And the poet and the painter Far behind is rightful time And we gazed upon the times of freedom flashing In the wild cathedral evening a rain unraveled tails for disrobed faceless forms of no position Toll in for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts All down and taking for granted situation Tolling for the deaf and blind Tolling for the mute for a mistreated mateless mother a mistitled prostitute for the misdemeanor outlaw chained and cheated by pursuit and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing even though a cloud's wide curtain a far off the corner flowered and the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting electric light still struck like arrows fired by far the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting holding for the searching ones on a speechless seeking trail for the lonesome hearted lovers with two personal a tail and for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing starry eyed and laughing as I recall when we were caught trapped by no track of ours for the hang suspended as we listened one last time and we watched with one last look spellbound and swallowed till the tolling ended tolling father whose wounds cannot be nursed are the couples confused accused misused strung at once and worse and forever hung up person in the whole wide universe and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now - Johnny Cash
SPEAKER_02I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me there were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail but I'm free from the change all the years I was known and respected till one day I was wrongly suspected I was shackled and changed in the cool freezing range but I'm free from the change now all the years I was known by a number how I kept my mind is a wonder but like a bird in a tree I got my liberty and I'm free from the change now I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me there were tears on the mail mothers sent me in jail but I'm free from the changing now there were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail but I'm free from the chain gang now Alright didn't I tell you that song was a little bit on the spooky
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SPEAKER_02side Johnny Cash and free from the chain gang now.
SPEAKER_01Before uh we wrap up this particular episode I do want to say another big thank you to my brother Lance and my sister-in-law Sarah for their continued uh help and support on getting these episodes and the whole podcast together. Also I would like to ask uh for your help if you have comments, criticisms, suggestions, uh even recommendations for a particular theme or uh an artist or some songs that you'd like to hear. Feel free free to drop me a line um either on the website or uh on the Facebook page and uh I will get back to you as soon as I can. We will have a new episode coming out next month and uh we're going to play you out with one last song here another Minnesota band and one of the many nineteen eighties songs and bands that incorrectly and um rather sadly convinced me that I could dance. This is the Suburbs Love is the law from nineteen eighty four enjoying
Love is the Law - The Suburbs
SPEAKER_01it. I want to warn you that these songs are extremely law enforcement and also contain very explicit language and If it doesn't offend you please listening now seriously turn off the podcast and find some other form of entertainment songs were primary reasons that the PMRC was formed and that the hyper warning about explicit language was created so why am I including this controversial music at all well first off because I feel that these songs rise to the level of social commentary. At a particular time and in a particular place these songs gave a voice to those who were otherwise voiceless. Second I'm a firm believer in our First Amendment rights and I'm willing to poke people in the eye to express that belief. Third there are times that I too am anti-law enforcement there are policies that I think are pretty counterproductive and frankly piss me off. Finally because it's my podcast and I can so there. Up first we have the Aussie proto-punk band Radio Birdman with hand of law next is Copkiller from Ice T. Following that we've got NWA with Fuck the police after that is I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley and the Wailers and then finally something a little bit lighter both in musical style and in lyrical content to wrap up this appendix that is Emerson Lake and Palmer with the Sheriff.
SPEAKER_20Enjoy or nothing
Addendum Intro
SPEAKER_20All this other people do another world All feels you can do all that in that world come up with all the world All the sky
Hand of Law - Radio Birdman
SPEAKER_20This next record is dedicated to some personal friends of mine.
SPEAKER_23The LAPD for every character is ever taken advantage of somebody. I got my black shirt on, I got my black gloves on, I got my steam ass on, this shit bit you all I throw this on off my headlights turned off I got the buttons shots on I have to dust some gas off the mechanic Catchula I know your family's grievous Catchula What's the night with your eating on eye Tonight I'll be your mind I got the ball every night And you make the right that my shirt bumpy I got a serial bumping I'm about to kill me something I think something but nothing Catchilla measure up the team Catch up I think I'm about to even catch it up in the wiki police Fox police police fat police police police I think you pay the free catch up to that police police police police break it down Fuck the police Yeah fuck the money for Daryl Gates Fuck the money for Rodney King Fuck the money for my dead homies for your freedom Fuck the money don't be a pussy fucking
Cop Killer - Body Count featuring Ice-T
SPEAKER_23mummy have some motherfucking courage Sang along Copula Capula Cocula Capula Capula What do you wanna be when you throw up?
SPEAKER_29Copula Good choice cocula I'm a motherfuckin' cockula That even means Capula I know your mama's reaving cockula But tonight we get even right about now NWA Ford is in full effect Judge Gray residing in the case of NWA versus the police department Prosecuting attorneys are MC Red Ice Cube and easy motherfucking E order order order ice cube take the motherfucking stand Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth or nothing but the truth so help your black ass you goddamn right won't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say Fuck the police coming straight from the underground a young nigga got it back cause I'm brown and not the other colors so police fake they have the authority to kill a minority fuck that shit cause I ain't the one for a punk motherfucker with a badge and a gun to be beaten on and thrown in jail we can go toe-to-toe in the middle of a cell fucking with me cause I'm a teenager with a little bit of gold and a pager searching my car, looking for the potter, thinking every nigga is a selling narcoter. You rather see me in the pen than me and Lorenzo rollin' in a benzo. Be the police out of shape, and when I finish, bring the yellow tape to take off the scene of the slaughter, still getting swallowed bread and water. I don't know if they bags or what.
SPEAKER_20Search a nigga down and grabbing his nuts. And on the other hand, without a gun, it can't get none.
SPEAKER_29But don't let it be a black and a white one. Cause they'll slam you down to the street top. Black police showin' out for the white cop. Ice Q will swarm on any motherfucker in a blue uniform.
SPEAKER_20Just cause I'm from the CBT. Both police are afraid of me. Huh? A young nigga on the warpath. And when I finish, it's gonna be a bloodbath of cops dying in LA. Yo, Dre, I got something to say.
unknownOh shit. Cause I feel like this ass on the curve and shut the fuck up, man. Fuck this shit.
SPEAKER_29Alright, smart ass. I'm taking your black ass to jail. MC Ren, will you please give your testimony to the jury about this fucked up incident? Fuck the police and Ren said it with authority. Because the niggas on the street is a majority of gang. That's what whoever I'm stepping. And a motherfucking weapon is a cap in a slash box for the so-called law. Wishing Ren was a nigga that they never saw. Light started flashing behind me. But they're scared of a nigga, so they made me to blind me. But that shit don't work, I just laugh. Because it gives them a head. Not a step in my path for police. I'm saying, fuck you, punk. Read my rights and shit. It's all junk. Running out of silly club, so you stand with a fake ass badge and a gun in your hand. But take off the gun so you can see what's up and we'll go at it, punk. And I'ma fuck you up. Take your think, I'ma kick your ass. But drop your gas, and red's gonna blast. I'm sneaky as fuck when it comes to crime. But I'ma smoke them now and not next time. Smoke any motherfucker that sweats me. Ain't the asshole that threatens me. I'ma snip them with a hell of a scope. Taking out a cop or two that can't cope with me. The motherfuckin' villain that's mad with potential to get bad as fuck. So I'ma turn it around. Put in my clip, yo, and this is the sound. Yeah, something like that, but it all depends on the size of the gap. Taking out a police will make my day. But a nigga like Red don't give a fuck to say. Fuck the police.
SPEAKER_20Get out and put your hands on the biggest.
Fuck tha Police - N.W.A.
SPEAKER_20Just shut the fuck up and get the motherfucker.
SPEAKER_30Easy E, once you step up to the stand and tell the jury how you feel about this bull shit. I'm tired of the motherfucking jacket. Sweating my gang while I'm chillin' in the shacking. Shining the light in my face and for what? Maybe it's because I get so much buttons I get gas. Or maybe cause I blast on a stupid ass nigga when I'm playing with the trigger of an Uzi RNA game. Cause the police always got something stupid to say. They put out my picture with silence. Cause my identity by itself causes violence. So ease with the criminal behavior. Yeah, I'm a gangster, but still I got flavor. Without a gun in the bag, what do you got? A sucker in a uniform waiting to get shot by me or another nigga. And with a guy, it don't matter if he's smaller or bigger. And as y'all know, ease here the rule. Whenever I'm rolling, keep looking in the mirror. And it's on you, yo. So I can hear a dumb motherfucker with a gun. And if I'm rolling out the eight, he'll be the one that I take out. And then get away while I'm driving off laughing. This is what I'll say. Fuck the police. Fuck the police. Fuck the police. Fuck the police.
SPEAKER_29Get him out of here. Get the fuck out of my face.
unknownFuck you, you black motherfucker.
SPEAKER_30Fuck the police. Fuck the police. Fuck the police. I shot the shell.
SPEAKER_20I didn't show the I shall be shadow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_26All around in my hotel. It's fine to find me down. Sheriff John always takes me. For what? I don't know. Every time I plant the sea. Where was the baby? I said I shot the shell. But I feel it was in Safety Fair. Yeah. And I started out of time. All of a sudden, I saw sheriffs and brown came in to shoot me down. So I shot, I shot, I shot the sound. And I said I will pay.
SPEAKER_20And what is the thing with me?
SPEAKER_26Every day the boss is a ball I will. One day the bustam of the drop ball. One day the battery drop. I say, I satisfied.
I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley and the Wailers
SPEAKER_20Yeah, yeah. Shows you like the rest. Don't wear your rest. So we can start a share. The night's got some telling you. Come straight with changes. I'm late to come in asked. Nobody else.