Kunstler On Your Side
Bob A. Feldman
A biographical folk song about the late 20th-century U.S. civil rights and Movement lawyer, which was written in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
(chorus)
He was known as a “People’s Lawyer”
Although he got on TV
And when William Kunstler argued
The judge said: “Not guilty!”
(verses)
If you like to sing some folk songs
And you’re bothered by the F.B.I.
Then my advice for all you folk fans
Is to have Kunstler on your side.
If you’re trapped in Alabama
Where a sheriff took you for a ride
Then my advice for all you folk fans
Is to have Kunstler on your side. (chorus)
If you’re fighting against the War Machine
And you’re jailed for exposing lies
Then my advice for all you folk fans
Is to have Kunstler on your side.
If you’ve led a protest march
Where the police beat you ‘till you cried
Then my advice for all you folk fans
Is to have Kunstler on your side. (chorus)
If you’re charged with “conspiracy”
And “illegally crossing state lines”
Then my advice for all you folk fans
Is to have Kunstler on your side.
If you’re revolting in a prison
Against guards that brutalized
Then my advice for all you folk fans
Is to have Kunstler on your side. (chorus)