Song... stuck... in head...

[tarotgal]

I heard this song last night on internet folk radio and I cannot get it out of my head.


This song was inspired by the statistic this song speaks to... I mean, I have no problem with lawyers in general. I think they serve an important part of society. But ONE MILLION of them? Whoa. Frightening ;-) Gods this song is way too catchy, though...

One Million Lawyers
(Tom Paxton)

Humankind has survived some disasters, I'm sure.
Like locusts and flash floods and flu.
There's never a moment when we've been secure
From the ills that the flesh is heir to.
If it isn't a war, it's some gruesome disease.
If it isn't disease, then it's war.
But there's worse still to come, and I'm asking you please
How the world's gonna take any more?

In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers,
One million lawyers, one million lawyers.
In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers.
How much can a poor nation stand?

The world shook with dread of Atilla the Hun
As he conquered with fire and steel,
And Genghis and Kubla and all of the Kahns
Ground a groaning world under the heel.
Disaster, disaster, so what else is new?
We've suffered the worst and then some.
So I'm sorry to tell you, my suffering friends,
Of the terrible scourge still to come.

In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers,
One million lawyers, one million lawyers.
In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers.
How much can a poor nation stand?

Oh, a suffering world cries for mercy
As far as the eye can see.
Lawyers around every bend in the road,
Laywers in every tree,
Lawyers in restaurants, lawyers in clubs,
Lawyers behind every door,
Behind windows and potted plants, shade trees and shrubs,
Lawyers on pogo sticks, lawyers in politics!

In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers,
One million lawyers, one million lawyers.
In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers.
How much can a poor nation stand?

In spring there's tornadoes and rampaging floods,
In summer it's heat stroke and draught.
There's Ivy League football to ruin the fall,
It's a terrible scourge, without doubt.
There are blizzards to batter the shivering plain.
There are dust storms that strike, but far worse
Is the threat of disaster to shrivel the brain,
It's the threat of implacable curse.

In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers,
One million lawyers, one million lawyers.
In ten years we're gonna have one million lawyers.
How much can a poor nation stand?
How much can a poor nation stand?


*sings* It's just WAY too catchy, this song
But it's better than that damn welcome table song that Boyfriend uses to get any other song out of my head. LOL

Good news: I didn't wake up mysteriously at 9am this morning for the first time in 4 days! YAY!
Bad news: It's because I haven't been able to fall asleep yet. So it's almost the same damn problem. LOL
If I wasn't on allergy meds, I'd SO go get some sleeping pills and knock myself out... er, if I could swallow pills...

Comments

[girlwithtulips.livejournal.com]

LOL

Yes, well *g* I agree with the song, actually... The thing is, we all start out with the intention to be good and moral, but (as our lecturers told us in week 1) somewhere along the way, we're much more likely to be sidetracked by the money and the technicalities and the human side of things. It disturbs me a little bit, when I read a problem question and get an instant gut reaction of "that's so wrong!!!" but then two seconds later have the legal answer figured out, which is the opposite to my moral answer. It's also disheartening when the lecturers emphasise that law does NOT equal morality, even if they have similiar roots. It is, apparently, a common misconception to equate law with morality. And the justice of the legal system is based around legal justice (ie ethics of the legal system, precedent being correctly applied, etc) rather than moral justice. But you have to wonder what went wrong when ammoral decisions occur, but are legally sound.

And there are some really, incredibly STUPID, unfair and hateful laws out there that no-one's willing to change. The one that makes me the angriest, though, is the homosexual panic defence. Basically, one man kills another and then pleads provocation (a partial defence that can reduce murder to manslaughter) on the grounds that the victim "made a pass" at him, and he was so revolted/horrified/offended by this homosexual advance that he killed him. The success rate of this defence is sickeningly high. And "made a pass" means "flirted with", not even "sexually assaulted" or "indecently assaulted". And the defence only works between two men... if a woman kills a man because he "made a pass" at her, she has no equivilent of the homosexual advance defence, because only gay advances are horrifying enough to warrant killing... Grrr. I was so shocked when we did this in crim I actually wrote an article on it and had it published in the student law magazine. It's the one thing that's ever motivated me to do extra work at uni! But yeah. Sometimes, law really DOES deserve its crappy reputation. < / rant >