In Chicago where I live, there's a... there's a outfit that'll tow just almost anything off the streets
but they deal mostly in automobile. and we call 'em the Lincoln Park Pirates*.
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The street lamps are on in Chicago tonite
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and lovers are gazin at stars,
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the stores are all closin'
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and Daley is dozin' and the fatman is counting the cars;
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There's more cars than places to put 'em he said
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but I got room for them all, so round 'em up boys
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I want some more toys, hit the lot by the grocery store
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--to me--
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WAY HEY TOW'EM AWAY
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The Lincoln Park pirates are we;
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from Wilmette to Gary
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There's none that so heavy
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and we always collect our fee
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WAY-HEY tow 'em away
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we plunder the streets of your town,
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be it Edsel or Chevy, there's no car too heavy
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And no one can make us shut down.
Verse 2
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We break into cars when we gotta
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with pick axe and hammer and saw,
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they say this garage has no license
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but little care I for the law
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all my drivers are friendly and courteous;
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their good manners you always will get
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for they all are recent graduates from the charm scholl in Joliet
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Verse 3
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And when all of the cars are collected,
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and all of their fenders are ruined
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then I'll tow every boat in belmont harbor to the Lincoln park Lagoon
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and when I've collected the ransom
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and sunk all the ones that won't yield
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then i'll tow all the planes that are blocking the runways
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at midway, O'Hare and Meigs Field
--to me--
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WAY HEY TOW'EM AWAY
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The Lincoln Park pirates are we;
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from Wilmette to Gary
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There's none that so heavy
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and we always collect our fee
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Way hey, tow 'em away, -- Citizens Gather around
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I think its enough and lets call his bluff
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Yeah lets throw the bum out of town.