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Top Ten Law Song List

By Simon Chester

Over at Above the Law, a silly season list of the best songs about the law, as polled by readers of that blog.

Here’s the official ATL Top Ten Law Song list:

1. I Fought The Law - The Clash [ Lyrics?YouTube ]

2. Lawyers, Guns, and Money - Warren Zevon [ Lyrics?YouTube ]

3. 99 Problems - Jay-Z [ Lyrics?YouTube ]

4. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash [ Lyrics?YouTube ]

5. We’re All Winners, as arranged by Nixon Peabody [ Explanation]

6. Law and Order theme song [ YouTube ?Dance Remix ]

7. Hurricane - Bob Dylan [ Lyrics?YouTube ]

8. Alice’s Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie [ Lyrics?YouTube ]

9. I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller 4 [ Lyrics?YouTube ]

10. The Road Goes on Forever - Robert Earl Keen [ Lyrics?YouTube ]

Check out the rationales and the debates about what’s missing. One English commentator lamented the loss of Ian Dury’s magic couplet from What a Waste:

I could be a lawyer with stratagems and ruses
I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).