Lyrics of Simon & Garfunkel 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night
thnidu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZazHqdNeXA. The person who posted the
recording put up the lyrics, but they're very hard to make sense of,
partly because of line breaks and capitalization. Some of the
commenters asked for clarification.
Googling the title, I found lyrics at
http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/simon_and_garfunkel_lyrics_1722/parsley_sage_rosemary_and_thyme_lyrics_3784/7_oclock_news___silent_night_lyrics_44788.html
I have edited that version for clarity, mostly by grouping the
sentences into paragraphs.
I am posting them here partly because this is seems a good place, and
partly because they are too long for the marginXXXXXX comment field on
YouTube.
Mark Mandel
[The lyrics of the "Seven O'Clock News" below may be in copyright.
They are posted here for personal use only, so people can understand
the song better.]
This is the early evening edition of the news.
The recent fight in the House of Representatives over the open housing
section of the Civil Rights Bill brought traditional enemies together
but left the defenders of the measure without the votes of their
strongest supporters. President Johnson originally proposed an
outright ban covering discrimination by everyone for every type of
housing, but it had no chance from the start and everyone in Congress
knew it. A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary
Committee.
In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to
be an overdose of narcotics. Bruce was 42 years old.
Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an
open housing march Sunday in the Chicago suburb of Cicero. Cook County
Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the police
in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out if
it is held. King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago
Tuesday.
In Chicago, Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses,
was brought before a grand jury today for indictment. The nurses were
found stabbed and strangled in their Chicago apartment.
In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee
of the House Committee on Un-American Activities continued its probe
into anti-Viet Nam war protests. Demonstrators were forcibly evicted
from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans.
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a
substantial increase in the present war effort in Viet Nam, the U.S.
should look forward to five more years of war. In a speech before the
Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also
said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single
weapon working against the U.S.
That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news, good night.
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Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace