# any good songs about lawyers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846 "2007-03-14T03:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/1 "2007-03-14T03:48:41Z")
Hey, all. I’m doing write-on for law review this week, and I could use some music to be lawyerly by. Anyone know any good songs about lawyers? Or, failing that, do the LawDopers have anything they particularly enjoy listening to while they Bluebook? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/2 "2007-03-14T03:52:47Z")
The only two that come to mind are Lawyers in Love, by Jackson Browne, and Lawyers Guns and Money, by Warren Zevon. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/3 "2007-03-14T03:57:13Z")
Good ol’Willie Nelson: “Mommas, don’t let your babies Grow up to be cowboys. Let’em be doctors, or lawyers, or such…” ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/4 "2007-03-14T03:58:14Z")
Jamie by Weezer ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/5 "2007-03-14T04:45:00Z")
Lawyers, Guns, and Money By Warren Zevon? [Lyrics](http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/WarrenZevon/LawyersGunsandMoney.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/6 "2007-03-14T04:47:24Z")
I hate bluebooking. I used to be awesome at it; people used to grovel at the throne of my bluebooking. But then I got rusty (and I got minions), so now other people bluebook for me. Music: I agree with my learned brother **Northern Piper** ; there’s nothing like Willie Nelson to motivate. But I tended to go for classical (“O fortuna” by Orff, “Dies Irae” by Verdi, Prokofiev’s “Battle on the Ice,” stuff like that – really loud and obnoxious stuff). Good luck with law review; I hope you make it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/7 "2007-03-14T05:15:49Z")
[QUOTE=Campion] Good luck with law review; I hope you make it. [/QUOTE] Thanks, **Campion**. And thanks for the suggestions, all. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/8 "2007-03-14T05:29:23Z")
Not strictly about lawyers, but related: **Sue Me, Sue You Blues** by George Harrison **This Song** by George Harrison **Haitian Divorce** by Steely Dan **I Swear** 😃 by John Michael Montgomery **D-I-V-O-R-C-E** by Tammy Wynette **I Fought the Law** by The Clash 😉 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/9 "2007-03-14T05:40:36Z")
\*Sue Me, \*from **Guys & Dolls.** \*Samovar the Lawyer, \*from **A Day in Hollywood, a Night in the Ukraine.** ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/10 "2007-03-14T06:00:45Z")
Would the theme songs of JAG or Law and Order count as a lawyer song? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/11 "2007-03-14T06:14:27Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] Would the theme songs of JAG or Law and Order count as a lawyer song? [/QUOTE] If so, Fred Steiner’s \*Perry Mason \* theme should surely count. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/12 "2007-03-14T06:18:25Z")
Sing to the tune of “So Happy Together” “Imagine me as God. I do. I think about it day and night. It feels so right To be a federal district judge and know that I’m Appointed forever. I was anointed by the President, And revelation told him I was heaven-sent. And Congress in their wisdom granted their consent. Appointed forever. I’m a federal judge And I’m smarter than you For all my life. I can do whatever I want to do For all my life. ``` **** ``` Even at the very worst, If you take me up to get reversed, You’ll have to get the circuit court to hear you first, And that takes forever.” Suboh v. Borgioli, 298 F. Supp. 2d 192 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/13 "2007-03-14T06:27:20Z")
**Andrew Bird** , that made my day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/14 "2007-03-14T06:34:42Z")
What, no love for [Dave Frischberg?](http://www.ralphmag.org/DK/letters2.html) > [@My Attorney Bernie](#): > > Thanks to you, my attorney Bernie > Thanks to you, I’m considered well-to-do > Sure I made out like a bandit > Just exactly like you planned it > But like Murray my accountant > told me yesterday, I owe it all to you. OTOH, from [here](http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNjkmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwMDQxNzgmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3), we learn that Frischberg didn’t intend for it to be a song about lawyers. > [@Dave Frischberg](#): > > “I sometimes explain, this is not about attorneys,” Frishberg says. “It’s a song about clients, and the client is singing, and what we get is this picture of a client who thinks his lawyer is hot stuff, and that’s what makes it funny.” ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/15 "2007-03-14T06:57:51Z")
A lesser-known, but delightful ditty by **Al Stewart** “License to steal” He walks into the room He’s got a briefcase like a bomb A smile on both faces And he call it aplomb He wants a bite of your apple Hands you back the peel He’s fresh out of law school He’s got a license to steal Full lyrics[here](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/al-stewart-license-to-steal-lyrics.html) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/16 "2007-03-14T07:47:23Z")
**The Legal Ramifications of a Crackerjack Vendor Who Works in Yankee Stadium** by Christine Lavin ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/17 "2007-03-14T07:59:11Z")
[**Philadelphia Lawyer**](http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Philadelphia_Lawyer.htm) by Woody Guthrie. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/18 "2007-03-14T12:49:04Z")
From [_Billy Austin_](http://steveearle.net/lyrics/ly-hard.php#BillyAustin), by Steve Earle: “I didn’t even make the papers 'Cause I only killed one man but my trial was over quickly And then the long hard wait began Court appointed lawyer Couldn’t look me in the eye He just stood up and closed his briefcase When they sentenced me to die” ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/19 "2007-03-14T13:18:26Z")
Don Henley “End of the Innocence” _When happily ever after fails And we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers dwell on small details Since daddy had to fly_ and later _The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie_ It’s not the most flattering song for lawyers, but its schmaltz is a guilty pleasure for me. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846/20 "2007-03-14T16:04:35Z")
**California Sex Lawyer** by Fountains of Wayne **Oswald Defense Lawyer** by The Fall **Legal Boys** by Elton John **Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief** by Hoagy Carmichael & Paul Francis Webster [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-songs-about-lawyers/395846.md?page=2)