ACCORDI: LAm FA LAm FA (X2) I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops

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Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night "One of us had better call up the cops."

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Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall. And so Patty calls the cops

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She sees the bartender in a pool of blood, And they arrive on the scene with their red
lights flashin'
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Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
In the hot New Jersey night.
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Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
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Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
The man the authorities came to blame
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Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin'
For somethin' that he never done.
around.
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Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a
Number one contender for the middleweight
been
crown
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The champion of the world.
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go
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Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see When a cop pulled him over to the side of the
road
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And another man named Bello, movin' around
mysteriously. Just like the time before and the time before
that.
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"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his
hands In Paterson that's just the way things go.

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"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you If you're black you might as well not show up on
understand. the street

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'Less you wanna draw the heat. The wounded man looks up through his one dyin'
eye
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Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for
the guy!"
the cops.
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Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out
prowlin' around DO (Stop) FA (Stop) FA

LAm FA The man the authorities came to blame

He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked REm DO
like middleweights
For somethin' that he never done.
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They jumped into a white car with out-of-state
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a
plates."
been
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And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
The champion of the world.
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Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not
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dead"
Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
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So they took him to the infirmary
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
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And though this man could hardly see
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery
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game
They told him that he could i - dentify the guilty
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men.
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him,
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lookin' for somebody to blame.
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Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
"Remember that murder that happened in a
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Take him to the hospital and they bring him DO (Stop) FA (Stop) FA
upstairs.
"Remember you said 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 It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay

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That you saw runnin' that night?" And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way

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"Don't forget that you are white." Up to some paradise

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LAm FA Where the trout streams flow and the air is

nice
Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."
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And ride a horse along a trail.
Cops said, "A poor boy like you Could use a break
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But then they took him to the jail house
We got you for the motel job End we're talkin' to
your friend Bello LAm FA DO SOL

LAm FA Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a LAm FA LAm FA

nice fellow.
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All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
You'll be doin' society a favor.
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The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
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The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards
We want to put his ass in stir from the slums

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We want to pin this triple mur - der on him To the white folks who watched he was a
revolutionary bum
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He ain't no Gentleman Jim.
And to the black folks he was just a crazy
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nigger.
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"Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
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But he never did like to talk about it all that
And though they could not produce the gun,
much.
REm DO MI LAm While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell

The D.A. said he was the one who who did the LAm FA
deed
An innocent man in a living hell.
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And the all-white jury agreed.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
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But it won't be over till they clear his name
Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
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And give him back the time he's done.
The crime was murder "one," guess who
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testified?
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a
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been
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
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The champion of the world.
And the newspapers, they all went along for the
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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 to live

in a land

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Where justice is a game.

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Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties

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Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise

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