In The Heat Of The Summer-Judy Collins

[ti:In The Heat Of The Summer] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:Forever - An Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]In The Heat Of The Summer - Judy Collins [00:11.48]In the heat of the summer [00:15.45] [00:16.64]When the pavements were burning [00:20.69]The soul of a city was ravaged in the night [00:26.29] [00:27.01]After the city sun was setting [00:31.60] [00:34.85]Now no one knows how it started [00:38.86] [00:40.39]Why the windows were shattered [00:44.89]But deep in the dark someone set the spark [00:50.46]And then it no longer mattered [00:55.34] [00:58.83]Down the streets they were rumbling [01:03.12] [01:04.07]Birds were already flyin' [01:07.91] [01:08.44]Oh where oh where are the white silver tongues [01:13.68] [01:14.27]Who forgot to listen to the warnings [01:19.71] [01:22.84]Drunk with the memory of the ghetto [01:26.83] [01:28.13]Drunk with the lure of the looting [01:32.03] [01:32.70]With the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks [01:37.97] [01:38.66]Asking are you looking for trouble [01:44.07] [01:47.57]No no no moaned the mayor [01:52.16] [01:52.77]That's not the way of the order [01:57.67] [01:58.17]Stay in your homes please leave us alone [02:02.74]We'll be glad to talk in the morning [02:07.83] [02:11.70]For shame for shame wrote the papers [02:16.25] [02:17.42]Why the hurry to your hunger [02:21.77]Now the rubble is resting on your broken streets [02:27.16] [02:27.68]And you see what your rage has unraveled [02:33.31] [02:39.36]And when the fury was over [02:44.30] [02:44.90]Shame was replacing the anger [02:49.41]So wrong so wrong but we've been down so long [02:55.65]And we had to make somebody listen [03:02.00] [03:07.50]In the heat of summer