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Verse 1
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ONE MILLION LAWYERS
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By Tom Paxton
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Humankind has survived some disasters,

I'm sure.
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Like locusts and flash floods and flu.
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There's never a moment when
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we've been secure
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From the ills that the flesh is heir to.

If it isn't a war,
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it's some gruesome disease.
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If it isn't disease, then it's war.
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But there's worse still to come,
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and I'm asking you please
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How the world's gonna take
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any more?

(CHORUS:)
Verse 2
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In ten years we're gonna

have one million lawyers,
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One million lawyers, one million lawyers.

In ten years we're gonna

have one million lawyers.
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How much can a poor nation

stand?
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Verse 3
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The world shook with
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dread of Atilla the Hun
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As he conquered with fire and steel,
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And Genghis and Kubla and
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all of the Kahns
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Ground a groaning world
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under the heel.

Disaster, disaster,
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so what else is new?
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We've suffered the worst and then some.
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So I'm sorry to tell you, my
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suffering friends,
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Of the terrible scourge still to
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come.
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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(CHORUS)

(BREAK:)
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Oh, a suffering world cries for mercy
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As far as the eye can see.
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Lawyers around every bend in the road,
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Laywers in every tree,

Lawyers in restaurants,
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lawyers in clubs,
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Lawyers behind every door,
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Behind windows and potted plants,
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shade trees and shrubs,
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Lawyers on pogo sticks,
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lawyers in polit ics!
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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(CHORUS) In spring

there's tornadoes
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and rampaging floods,
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In summer it's heat stroke

and draught.
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There's Ivy League football
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to ruin the fall,
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It's a terrible scourge, without doubt.

There are blizzards to batter
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the shivering plain.
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There are dust storms that strike,
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but far worse
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Is the threat of disaster to shrivel the brain,
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It's the threat of implacable curse.
Verse 6
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In ten years we're gonna

have one million lawyers,
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One million lawyers, one million lawyers.

In ten years we're gonna

have one million lawyers.
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How much can a poor nation stand?
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How much can a poor nation stand

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The original key of One Million Lawyers by Tom Paxton is E major.

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