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Thread #61501   Message #988997
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
23-Jul-03 - 03:00 PM
Thread Name: Positive songs about lawyers & judges
Subject: RE: Positive songs about
You might find positive songs about particular people who just happened to be lawyers, such as Abraham Lincoln or Daniel O'Connell, but maybe that doesn't count.

Trial by Jury has the song "he is a judge and a good judge too" - but once again that doesn't count, because he isn't.

The only song I can think of with a "judge" as hero in his role as judge is "Roy Bean" - but since he was a psychopathic killer, maybe that doesn't count either.

You'd really need to have a lawyer or a judge who upheld the law in the face of adversity, and suffered for it. There've been a few of them though - maybe there are Italian ballads about judges who've been murdered by the Mafia?

And I'd be surprised if there are no songs from Ireland about the murdered lawyers Pat Finucane or Rosemary Nelson.