diff --git a/songs/Bob_Dylan/Hurricane.sg b/songs/Bob_Dylan/Hurricane.sg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b17898a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/songs/Bob_Dylan/Hurricane.sg @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +\selectlanguage{english} +\songcolumns{1} +\beginsong{Hurricane} + [by=Bob Dylan,cov=desire,album=Desire] + + \cover + \gtab{Am}{X02210} + \gtab{F}{1:022100} + \gtab{C}{X32010} + \gtab{Dm}{XX0231} + \gtab{Em}{022000} + \gtab{G}{320003} + + \ifchorded + \beginverse* + \musicnote{intro: {\nolyrics \[Am F Am F]}} + \endverse + \fi + + \beginverse + \[Am]Pistol shots ring out in the bar\[F]room night + \[Am]Enter Patty Valentine from the \[F]upper hall + \[Am]She sees the bartender in a \[F]pool of blood + \[Am]Cries out: ``My God! They killed \[F]them all!'' + \endverse + + \beginverse* + \[C]Here comes the story of the \[F]Hurricane + \[C]The man the authorities cam\[F]e to blame + \[Dm]For something that he never \[C]done + \[Dm]Put in a prison cell but \[C]one time + \[Em]He could have been\[Am] the \[F]champion of the worl\[C]d + {\nolyrics \[G Am F Am F]} + \endverse + + \beginverse + Three bodied lying there does Patty see + And another man named Bello moving around mysteriously + ``I didn't do it'' he says, and he throws up his hands + ``I was only robbing the register, I hope you understand'' + \endverse + + \beginverse* + ``I saw them leaving'' he says and he stops + One of us had better call the cops + And so Patty calls the cops + And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashing + In the hot New Jersey night + \endverse + + + \beginverse + Meanwhile somewhere in another part of town + Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving around + Number one contender for the middleweight crown + Had no idea what kind of shit was about to go down + \endverse + + \beginverse* + When a cop pulled him over on the side of the road + Just like the time before and the time before that + In Paterson that just the ways things go + If you black you might as well not show up on the streets + Less you wanna draw the heat + \endverse + + + \beginverse + Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops + Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling around + He said: ``I saw two men running out, they looked like middleweights + They jumped into a white car with out of state plates'' + \endverse + + \beginverse* + And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head + Cop said: ``Wait a minute boys, this one's not dead'' + So they took him to the infirmary + And although this man could hardly see + They told him that he could identify the guilty men + \endverse + + + \beginverse + Four in the morning and they haul Rubin in + Take him to the hospital and bring him upstairs + The wounded man looks up though his one dying eye + Says: ``Why'd you bring him here for? He ain't the guy!'' + \endverse + + \beginverse* + Here's the story of the Hurricane + The man the authorities came to blame + For something that he never done + Put in a prison cell but one time he could've been + The champion of the world + \endverse + + + \beginverse + Four months later the ghetto's in flame + Rubin's in South America, fighting for his name + While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game + And the cops are putting the screw to him looking for somebody to blame + \endverse + + \beginverse* + ``Remember that murder that happened in a bar?'' + ``Remember? You said you saw the getaway car?'' + ``You think you'd like to play ball with the law?'' + ``Think it might have been that fighter that you saw running that night?'' + ``Don't forget that you are white'' + \endverse + + + \beginverse + Arthur Dexter Bradley said: ``I'm really not sure'' + The cops said: ``A poor boy like you could really use a break + We got you for the motel job and were talking to your friend Bello + Now you don't want to have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow'' + \endverse + + \beginverse* + ``You'll be doing society a favor + That son of a bitch is brave and getting braver + We want to put his ass in the stir + We want to pin this trip murder on him + He ain't no gentleman Jim'' + \endverse + + + \beginverse + Rubin could take a man out with just one punch + He never did like to talk about it all that much + It's my work he'd say, I do it for pay + And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way + \endverse + + \beginverse* + Up to some paradise + Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice + And ride a horse along a trail + But then they took him to the jail house + Where they try to make a man into a mouse + \endverse + + + \beginverse + All of Rubin's card were marked in advance + The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance + The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums + To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum + \endverse + + \beginverse* + But to the black folks he was a crazy nigger + No one doubted that he pulled the trigger + And though they could not produce the gun + The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed + And the all-white jury agreed + \endverse + + + \beginverse + Rubin Carter was falsely tried + The crime was murder \emph{one}, guess who testified? + Bello and Bradley and the both badly lied + And the newspapers all went along for the ride + \endverse + + \beginverse* + How can the life of such a man + Be in the palm of some fool's hand? + To see him obviously framed + Couldn't help but be ashamed to live in a land + Where justice is a game + \endverse + + + \beginverse + Now all the criminal in their coats and their ties + Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise + While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten foot cell + And innocent man in a living hell + \endverse + + \beginverse* + That's the story of the Hurricane + But it won't be over till they clear him name + And give him back the time he's done + Put in a prison cell but one time he could've been + The champion of the world + \endverse + +\endsong