International Law

Top Ten Law Songs

Check out this "official" ranking by US law blog, Above the Law, of its all-time top ten law songs:

1. I Fought The Law - The Clash
2. Lawyers, Guns, and Money - Warren Zevon
3. 99 Problems - Jay-Z
4. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
5. We're All Winners, as arranged by Nixon Peabody
6. Law and Order theme song
7. Hurricane - Bob Dylan
8. Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie
9. I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller 4
10. The Road Goes on Forever - Robert Earl Keen

What do you think?

We've previously featured numbers 1 and 9.

So, here is the late Warren Zevon with a rare, acoustic version of Lawyers Guns and Money from a 1994 BBC Christmas broadcast..:

... and a more robust full band version, from Nightmusic:

And finally, our featured tune makes a cameo appearance as a Letterman theme song for Celebrity Legal Troubles, with Mr. Zevon filling in for an absent Paul Schaeffer:

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Full post as published by Wise Law Blog on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).