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· May 17, 2026
Morning News Ballad
The Ballad of the Fifth Avenue King
A Story of a Verdict
The Ballad of the Fifth Avenue King
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A Story of a Verdict
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Come gather 'round folks, and a story I'll tell
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Of a city of glass where a great man once fell
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Not with a sword, but a pen and a ledger
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In a courtroom in spring, with the world as a hedger
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The Fifth Avenue King, with his tower of gold
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Faced a jury of twelve, a story so old
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On an island of stone, 'neath a sky gray and hazy
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The whole world was watchin', and callin' him crazy.
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Oh, the scales of justice, they tremble and sway
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For the pauper and prince at the end of the day
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The wheel of fortune keeps turnin' around
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What goes up must be brought to the ground
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It's a story of power, a story of pride
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With nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
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The days turned to weeks, full of whispers and doubt
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They talked of the payments, and who was paid out
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A star of the screen, and a man at the door
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Things the grand papers had printed before
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But now it was different, beneath oath and seal
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To make history's pages feel suddenly real
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And the twelve silent faces, they listened so keen
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To the biggest reality show ever been seen.
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Oh, the scales of justice, they tremble and sway
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For the pauper and prince at the end of the day
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The wheel of fortune keeps turnin' around
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What goes up must be brought to the ground
1:53
It's a story of power, a story of pride
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With nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
2:02
And while the court sat, the world didn't sleep
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Twisters ripped through the heartland, secrets to keep
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Students on campus raised flags and their songs
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Trying to right what they saw as the wrongs
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From the heat in the south to the political fight
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Another day's turning from darkness to light.
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Then the foreman he stood, with a note in his hand
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A silence fell over this promised, new land
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The cameras flashed bright, and the anchors went sober
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The long, tangled summer was finally over
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He read out the counts, thirty-four in a line
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A new kind of history, for your day and for mine
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And the king in the courtroom, he showed no surprise
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Just the same old defiance, alive in his eyes.
