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Originally posted by Affair on Touhy Ave.:
Can't remember the whole line I'm sure there's a valid point to the song and many of these folk songs but sometimes they're not always easy to get.
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OK I googled for the title of the song
Google kindly corrected your typo!!
and found a number of sites quoting the lyrics such as:-
http://www.ocap.ca/songs/smalcirc.html
where the whole of the first verse is shown as:-
Look outside the window, there's a woman being grabbed
They've dragged her to the bushes and now she's being stabbed
Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain
But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody
Outside of a small circle of friends
Two other verses start thus:-
Oh there's a dirty paper using sex to make a sale
...
But we're busy reading Playboy and the Sunday New York Times
and
Smoking marihuana is more fun than drinking beer,
comment on the song you mentioned is:-
"The first verse is a commentary on the murder of Kitty Genovese. She was murdered March 14th, 1964 in NYC. Dave Marulli supplies the following about this incident:"
This is a good description including the reaction of witnesses to the murder who said
"We didn't want to get involved"
Hundreds, if not thousands, of studies were done about this event
One study concluded that on average, if more than 4 people witness an event, nobody will do anything. Each person will say to themselves "I don't have to get involved since there are other people here who can help."