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· Jun 7, 2026
Morning News Ballad
The Ballad of Thirty-Four Counts
A Story from a New York Courtroom
The Ballad of Thirty-Four Counts
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A Story from a New York Courtroom
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In a Manhattan courtroom, where the air was thick and slow
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A jury held the future of a man we all think we know
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Once sat in the highest office, with a pen to change the law
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Now he watched a dozen faces for a single, fatal flaw
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Thirty-four times the hammer fell, a whisper then a shout
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Thirty-four times the word was 'Guilty,' leaving no one left in doubt
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A king without a kingdom, in a court of common men
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The history books are turning a new chapter once again
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The story's old as money, a tale of hush and hide
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A lawyer and a payment, to protect a powerful pride
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A star of screen and shadow, with a truth she wouldn't sell
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Rang a bell of reckoning you can't un-ring, from a story she would tell
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Thirty-four times the hammer fell, a whisper then a shout
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Thirty-four times the word was 'Guilty,' leaving no one left in doubt
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A king without a kingdom, in a court of common men
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The history books are turning a new chapter once again
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The crowds outside were shouting, two nations on one street
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One saw a righteous justice, one the bitter taste of cheat
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Now the calendar keeps turning to a date in mid-July
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While the whole world keeps on spinning underneath a worried sky
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And the news keeps rolling onwards, of a ceasefire far away
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And the sun beats down on Texas, getting hotter every day
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Some folks build a fortune, some folks tear it to the ground
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But the same old human stories, they just keep on comin' 'round
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Thirty-four times the hammer fell, a whisper then a shout
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Thirty-four times the word was 'Guilty,' leaving no one left in doubt
2:49
A king without a kingdom, in a court of common men
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The history books are turning a new chapter once again
