"The Night Chicago Died" is a song by the British group Paper Lace, written by Peter Callander and Mitch Murray. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in 1974, reached number 3 in the UK charts, and number 2 in Canada. It is about a fictional shoot-out in Chicago between gangsters tied to Al Capone and the Chicago Police. The narrator retells his mother's anguish while awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago policeman.
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“in the human
faults and depths
silences
floating
between night and daybreak
illusion and substance.”
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“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
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“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 16:3.
The Israelites.