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Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter |
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Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name |
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Busted on a drunken charge |
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Driving someone else's car |
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The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame |
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In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how |
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Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded |
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Knowing they'd remain the boss |
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Knowing he would pay the cost |
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They saw he was severely reprimanded |
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In the blackest cell on "A" Block |
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He hanged himself at dawn |
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With a note stuck to the bunk head |
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Don't mess with me, just take me home |
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Come and lay, help us lay |
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young Billy down |
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Luna was a Mexican the law called an alien |
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For coming across the border with a baby and a wife |
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Though the clothes upon his back were wet |
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Still he thought that he could get |
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Some money and things to start a life |
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It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong |
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They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home |
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This foreigner, a brown-skin male |
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Thrown into a Texas jail |
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It left the wife and baby quite alone |
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He eased the pain inside him |
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With a needle in his arm |
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But the dope just crucified him |
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He died to no one's great alarm |
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Come and lay, help us lay |
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Young Luna down |
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And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons |
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To the ground |
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Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive |
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And leave the joint and walk the streets again |
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As the time he was to leave drew near |
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He suffered all the joy and fear |
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Of leaving 35 years in the pen |
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And on the day of his release he was approached by the police |
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Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side |
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The warden said "You won't remain here |
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But it seems a state retainer |
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Claims another 10 years of your life." |
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He stepped out in the Texas sunlight |
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The cops all stood around |
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Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards |
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Then threw himself down on the ground |
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They might as well just have laid |
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The old man down |
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And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons |
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To the ground |
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Help us raze, raze the prisons |
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To the ground |
