Tonart: A minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
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Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
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She sees a bartender in a pool of blood
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Cries out my God, they killed them all
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Here comes the story of the Hurricane
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The man the authorities came to blame
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For somethin' that he never done
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Put in a prison cell,
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but one time he could-a been
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The champion of the world
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
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And another man named Bello,
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movin' around mysteriously
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I didn't do it, he says,
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and he throws up his hands
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I was only robbin' the register,
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I saw them leavin', he says, and he stops
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One of us had better call up the cops
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And so Patty calls the cops
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And they arrive on the scene
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with their red lights flashin'
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In the hot New Jersey night
Interlude 2
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Verse 3
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Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
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Rubin Carter and a couple of friends
are drivin' around
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Number one contender
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for the middleweight crown
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Had no idea what kinda shit
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When a cop pulled him over
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to the side of the road
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Just like the time before
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and the time before that
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In Paterson that's just the way things go
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If you're black you might as well
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not show up on the street
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'Less you want to draw the heat
Interlude 3
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Verse 4
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Alfred Bello had a partner
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and he had a rap for the cops
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Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley
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were just out prowlin' around
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He said, I saw two men runnin' out,
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they looked like middleweights
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Jumped into a white car
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with out-of-state plates
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And Miss Patty Valentine
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Cop said, wait a minute, boys,
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So they took him to the infirmary
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And though this man could hardly see
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They told him that he could
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i dentify the guilty men
Interlude 4
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Verse 5
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Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in
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They took him to the hospital
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and they brought him upstairs
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The wounded man looks up
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through his one dyin' eye
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Says, wha'd you bring him in here for?
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Here's the story of the Hurricane
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The man the authorities came to blame
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For somethin' that he never done
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Put in a prison cell,
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but one time he could-a been
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The champion of the world
Interlude 5
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Verse 6
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Four months later, the ghettos are in flame
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Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
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While Arthur Dexter Bradley's
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still in the robbery game
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And the cops are puttin' the screws to him,
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lookin' for somebody to blame
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you saw the getaway car
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You think you'd like to play ball with the law
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Think it might-a been that fighter
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that you saw runnin' that night
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Don't forget that you are white
Interlude 6
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Verse 7
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Arthur Dexter Bradley said I'm really not sure
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The cops said a poor boy like you
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We got you for the motel job
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and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
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You don't wanta have to go back to jail,
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You'll be doin' society a favor
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That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver
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We want to put his ass in stir
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We want to pin this triple murder
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on him, he ain't no Gentleman Jim
Interlude 7
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Verse 8
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Rubin could take a man out
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But he never did like to talk about
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It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
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I'd just as soon go on my way
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Up to some paradise
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Where the trout streams flow
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And ride a horse along a trail
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But then they took him to the jailhouse
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Where they try to turn a man into a mouse
Interlude 8
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Verse 9
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All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
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The trial was a pig-circus,
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The judge made Rubin's witnesses
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drunkards from the slums
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To the white folks who watched
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he was a revolutionary bum
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he was just a crazy nigger
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No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
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And though they could not produce the gun
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The D.A. said he was the one
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who did the deed
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And the all-white jury agreed
Interlude 9
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Verse 10
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Rubin Carter was falsely tried
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The crime was murder one,
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Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
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they all went along for the ride
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How can the life of such a man
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Be in the palm of some fool's hand
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To see him obviously framed
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Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed
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to live in a land
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Where justice is a game
Interlude 10
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Verse 11
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Now all the criminals
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in their coats and their ties
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Are free to drink martinis
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While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
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An innocent man in a living hell
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That's the story of the Hurricane
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But it won't be over till they clear his name
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And give him back the time he's done
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Put in a prison cell,
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but one time he could-a been
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The champion of the world
Outro 1
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