Daddy was a cop.. on the East Side of Chicago

[Dookus]

Back in the U.S.A. back in the bad old days

In the heat of a summer night
In the land of the dollar bill
When the town of Chicago died
And they talk about it still
When a man named Al Capone
Tried to make that town his own
And he called his gang to war
With the forces of the law

I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night it really was
Brother what a fight it really was
Glory be!
I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night the people saw
Brother what a fight the people saw
Yes indeed!

And the sound of the battle rang
Through the streets of the old east side
'Til the last of the hoodlum gang
Had surrendered up or died
There was shouting in the street
And the sound of running feet
And I asked someone who said
"'Bout a hundred cops are dead!"

I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night it really was
Brother what a fight it really was
Glory be!
I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night the people saw
Brother what a fight the people saw
Yes indeed!

And ther was no sound at all
But the clock upon the wall
Then the door burst open wide
And my daddy stepped inside
And he kissed my mama's face
And he brushed her tears away

The night Chicago died
Na-na na, na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na
The night Chicago died
Brother what a night the people saw
Brother what a fight the people saw
Yes indeed!

The night Chicago died
Na-na na, na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na
The night Chicago died
Brother what a night it really was
Brother what a fight it really was
Glory be!

The night Chicago died
Na-na na, na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na
The night Chicago died
Brother what a night the people saw
Brother what a fight the people saw
Yes indeed!

[GOPisEvil]

1. Did you and matcom drink the same water today?

He posted this same thing this morning. :D

[Dookus]

2. Damn him!

[demon67]

3. The "East Side of Chicago'

is called Lake Michigan. It has no cops. This reminds me of the similarly dim lyrical reference by Kim Wilde in "Kids in America": "New York to East California, there'a a new wave comin' I warn ya'." Umm, East California? Like Bakersfield, maybe?

[ET Awful]

4. I still like Eric Burdon singing of a "warm" San Francisco night :). . .

Like WHEN? :)

[Susang]

7. "Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit"

That Journey song always drove us Detroiters (past and present) crazy, since we all knew that nobody who lived in that area ever used the term "south Detroit". It is called "downriver" stupid!

[pbg]

8. There actually is an East Side of Chicago

but it's a thin sliver of the city east of the Calumet River adjoining Indiana. Small, mainly industrial area, pretty depressed these days. (108th street and Ewing)

All of which doesn't excuse the Paper Lace song.

[realisticphish]

10. funny, but wrong

there is no set size of a "side". the east side of chicago is the EAST SIDE OF CHICAGO, as in the eastern half of the city. the lake is east of the city...its like saying the the eastern United States is the Atlantic Ocean. and, the east side of chicago is the docks, which i assure you, has a LOT of cops


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[matcom]

5. DUPE

:D

[Dookus]

6. oh go

give your hippo a hand job

[matcom]

9. heh

i just MAY be the most DUPED man in the lounge! :D