Also came across this:

"THE BALLAD OF LOU MARSH
Words and Music by Phil Ochs
1963

On the streets of New York City when the hour was getting late,
There were young men armed with knives and guns,
Young men armed with hate.
And Lou Marsh stepped between them and died there in his tracks.
For one man is no army when a city turns its back.

Chorus:
And now the streets are empty, and now the streets are dark,
So keep an eye for shadows and never pass the park.
For the city is a jungle when the law is out of sight,
And death lurks in el Barrio with the orphans of the night.

He left behind the chambers of the church he served so long
For he learned the prayers of distant men will never right the wrongs
His church became an alley and his pulpit was the street
And he made his congregation from the boys he used to meet

Chorus

There were two gangs approaching
In spanish Harlem town
The smell of blood was in the air
The challenge was laid down
He felt their blinding hatred
And he tried to save their lives
*And the answer that they gave him
Was their fist & feet & knives.

Chorus

Will Lou Marsh lie forgotten in his cold silent grave
Will his memory still linger on in those he tried to save
And all of us who knew him will now and then recall
And shed a tear on poverty the tombstone of us all.

Chorus

*Words are often changed from one performance to the next. These two lines are printed in the song as it appears in Broadside:

But they broke his peaceful body
With their fist & feet & knives.
Also from the Broadside:

Youth Knifed
To Death Near
Central Park


By JOSEPH COTTER
A Bronx teenager was stabbed to death at 96th St. and Central Park West Friday night, the victim of the fourth murder in the park neighborhood in the past five months."