Now the streets are dark
For one man is no army
Tombstone of us all
So keep an eye on shadows
And now the streets are empty
When the law is out of sight
And he made his congregation
In his cold and silent grave?
For the city is a jungle
For the city is a jungle
His church became an alley
Will never right the wrongs
Will his memory still linger on
Will now and then recall
Young men armed with hate
And never pass the park
With the orphans of the night
The challenge was laid down
For he learned the prayers of distant men
All of us who knew him
Was their fists and feet and knives
When the law is out of sight
And never pass the park
When the city turns its back
Now the streets are dark
Will Lou Marsh lie forgotten
In those he tried to save?
Now the streets are dark
And death lurks in El Barrio
Now the streets are dark
And death lurks in El Barrio
And died there in his tracks
When the law is out of sight
And now the streets are empty
And death lurks in El Barrio
When the law is out of sight
And never pass the park
He left behind a chamber
There were young men armed with knives and guns
And he tried to save their lives
And never pass the park
With the orphans of the night
The smell of blood was in the air
And now the streets are empty
So keep an eye on shadows
And shed a tear on poverty
For the city is a jungle
And death lurks in El Barrio
So keep an eye on shadows
And Lou Marsh stepped between them
And the answer that they gave him
He felt their blinding hatred
From the boys he used to meet
So keep an eye on shadows
With the orphans of the night
For the city is a jungle
For now the streets are empty
And his pulpit was the street
Of a church he served so long
In Spanish Harlem town
There were two gangs approaching
