Hurricane Lyrics

Song	Hurricane
Artist	Bob Dylan
Album	The Best of Bob Dylan
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[00:07.690]	Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
[00:18.700]	Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
[00:22.910]	She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
[00:26.950]	Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
[00:30.550]	Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
[00:34.360]	The man the authorities came to blame
[00:37.920]	For somethin' that he never done.
[00:41.670]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
[00:45.190]	The champion of the world.
[00:49.530]
[00:50.620]	Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
[01:01.630]	And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
[01:03.600]	"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
[01:08.880]	"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
[01:11.280]	I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
[01:15.800]	"One of us had better call up the cops."
[01:18.850]	And so Patty calls the cops
[01:21.750]	And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
[01:27.640]	In the hot New Jersey night.
[01:32.850]
[01:34.140]	Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
[01:43.130]	Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
[01:46.810]	Number one contender for the middleweight crown
[01:50.300]	Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
[01:54.320]	When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
[01:58.289]	Just like the time before and the time before that.
[02:01.130]	In Paterson that's just the way things go.
[02:04.760]	If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
[02:09.240]	'Less you wanna draw the heat.
[02:18.500]	Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
[02:24.380]	Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
[02:28.500]	He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like
[02:30.550]	middleweights
[02:32.120]	They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."
[02:35.530]	And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
[02:38.410]	Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
[02:42.540]	So they took him to the infirmary
[02:45.800]	And though this man could hardly see
[02:49.450]	They told him that he could identify the guilty men.
[03:01.860]	Fourn the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
[03:05.380]	Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
[03:07.170]	The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
[03:12.440]	Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
[03:16.560]	Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
[03:19.860]	The man the authorities came to blame
[03:23.510]	For somethin' that he never done.
[03:27.400]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
[03:31.380]	The champion of the world.
[03:43.300]	Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
[03:46.620]	Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
[03:50.130]	While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
[03:53.540]	And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody
[03:56.0]	to blame.
[03:57.640]	"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
[04:00.930]	"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
[04:04.460]	"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
[04:08.130]	"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that
[04:09.930]	night?"
[04:12.230]	"Don't forget that you are white."
[04:18.560]	Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."
[04:27.270]	Cops said, " A poor boy like you could use a break
[04:29.750]	We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend
[04:33.250]	Bello
[04:34.580]	Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
[04:38.800]	You'll be doin' society a favor.
[04:41.980]	That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
[04:45.500]	We want to put his ass in stir
[04:47.200]	We want to pin this triple murder on him
[04:53.320]	He ain't no Gentleman Jim."
[04:59.500]	Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
[05:08.0]	But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
[05:11.110]	It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
[05:15.200]	And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
[05:19.700]	Up to some paradise
[05:22.200]	Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
[05:25.580]	And ride a horse along a trail.
[05:28.870]
[05:29.530]	But then they took him to the jailhouse
[05:32.930]	Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
[05:42.200]
[05:43.140]	All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
[05:48.730]	The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
[05:52.170]	The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
[05:55.730]	To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
[05:59.740]	And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.
[06:02.930]	No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
[06:06.580]	And though they could not produce the gun,
[06:10.380]	The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
[06:14.450]	And the all-white jury agreed.
[06:26.900]	Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
[06:29.780]	The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
[06:32.100]	Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
[06:36.900]	And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
[06:40.670]	How can the life of such a man
[06:43.730]	Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
[06:47.590]	To see him obviously framed
[06:51.300]	Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
[06:55.850]	Where justice is a game.
[07:05.970]	Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
[07:10.190]	Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
[07:13.850]	While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
[07:17.390]	An innocent man in a living hell.
[07:21.360]	Yes, that's the story of the Hurricane,
[07:24.650]	But it won't be over till they clear his name
[07:28.800]	And give him back the time he's done.
[07:31.380]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
[07:35.980]	The champion of the world.

[00:07.690]	Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
[00:18.700]	Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
[00:22.910]	She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
[00:26.950]	Cries out, " My God, they killed them all!"
[00:30.550]	Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
[00:34.360]	The man the authorities came to blame
[00:37.920]	For somethin' that he never done.
[00:41.670]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been
[00:45.190]	The champion of the world.
[00:49.530]
[00:50.620]	Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
[01:01.630]	And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
[01:03.600]	" I didn' t do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
[01:08.880]	" I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
[01:11.280]	I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
[01:15.800]	" One of us had better call up the cops."
[01:18.850]	And so Patty calls the cops
[01:21.750]	And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
[01:27.640]	In the hot New Jersey night.
[01:32.850]
[01:34.140]	Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
[01:43.130]	Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
[01:46.810]	Number one contender for the middleweight crown
[01:50.300]	Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
[01:54.320]	When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
[01:58.289]	Just like the time before and the time before that.
[02:01.130]	In Paterson that' s just the way things go.
[02:04.760]	If you' re black you might as well not show up on the street
[02:09.240]	' Less you wanna draw the heat.
[02:18.500]	Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
[02:24.380]	Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
[02:28.500]	He said, " I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like
[02:30.550]	middleweights
[02:32.120]	They jumped into a white car with outofstate plates."
[02:35.530]	And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
[02:38.410]	Cop said, " Wait a minute, boys, this one' s not dead"
[02:42.540]	So they took him to the infirmary
[02:45.800]	And though this man could hardly see
[02:49.450]	They told him that he could identify the guilty men.
[03:01.860]	Fourn the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
[03:05.380]	Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
[03:07.170]	The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
[03:12.440]	Says, " Wha' d you bring him in here for? He ain' t the guy!"
[03:16.560]	Yes, here' s the story of the Hurricane,
[03:19.860]	The man the authorities came to blame
[03:23.510]	For somethin' that he never done.
[03:27.400]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been
[03:31.380]	The champion of the world.
[03:43.300]	Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
[03:46.620]	Rubin' s in South America, fightin' for his name
[03:50.130]	While Arthur Dexter Bradley' s still in the robbery game
[03:53.540]	And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody
[03:56.0]	to blame.
[03:57.640]	" Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
[04:00.930]	" Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
[04:04.460]	" You think you' d like to play ball with the law?"
[04:08.130]	" Think it mighta been that fighter that you saw runnin' that
[04:09.930]	night?"
[04:12.230]	" Don' t forget that you are white."
[04:18.560]	Arthur Dexter Bradley said, " I' m really not sure."
[04:27.270]	Cops said, " A poor boy like you could use a break
[04:29.750]	We got you for the motel job and we' re talkin' to your friend
[04:33.250]	Bello
[04:34.580]	Now you don' t wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
[04:38.800]	You' ll be doin' society a favor.
[04:41.980]	That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
[04:45.500]	We want to put his ass in stir
[04:47.200]	We want to pin this triple murder on him
[04:53.320]	He ain' t no Gentleman Jim."
[04:59.500]	Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
[05:08.0]	But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
[05:11.110]	It' s my work, he' d say, and I do it for pay
[05:15.200]	And when it' s over I' d just as soon go on my way
[05:19.700]	Up to some paradise
[05:22.200]	Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
[05:25.580]	And ride a horse along a trail.
[05:28.870]
[05:29.530]	But then they took him to the jailhouse
[05:32.930]	Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
[05:42.200]
[05:43.140]	All of Rubin' s cards were marked in advance
[05:48.730]	The trial was a pigcircus, he never had a chance.
[05:52.170]	The judge made Rubin' s witnesses drunkards from the slums
[05:55.730]	To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
[05:59.740]	And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.
[06:02.930]	No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
[06:06.580]	And though they could not produce the gun,
[06:10.380]	The D. A. said he was the one who did the deed
[06:14.450]	And the allwhite jury agreed.
[06:26.900]	Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
[06:29.780]	The crime was murder " one," guess who testified?
[06:32.100]	Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
[06:36.900]	And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
[06:40.670]	How can the life of such a man
[06:43.730]	Be in the palm of some fool' s hand?
[06:47.590]	To see him obviously framed
[06:51.300]	Couldn' t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
[06:55.850]	Where justice is a game.
[07:05.970]	Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
[07:10.190]	Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
[07:13.850]	While Rubin sits like Buddha in a tenfoot cell
[07:17.390]	An innocent man in a living hell.
[07:21.360]	Yes, that' s the story of the Hurricane,
[07:24.650]	But it won' t be over till they clear his name
[07:28.800]	And give him back the time he' s done.
[07:31.380]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been
[07:35.980]	The champion of the world.

[00:07.690]	Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
[00:18.700]	Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
[00:22.910]	She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
[00:26.950]	Cries out, " My God, they killed them all!"
[00:30.550]	Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
[00:34.360]	The man the authorities came to blame
[00:37.920]	For somethin' that he never done.
[00:41.670]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been
[00:45.190]	The champion of the world.
[00:49.530]
[00:50.620]	Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
[01:01.630]	And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
[01:03.600]	" I didn' t do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
[01:08.880]	" I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
[01:11.280]	I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
[01:15.800]	" One of us had better call up the cops."
[01:18.850]	And so Patty calls the cops
[01:21.750]	And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
[01:27.640]	In the hot New Jersey night.
[01:32.850]
[01:34.140]	Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
[01:43.130]	Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
[01:46.810]	Number one contender for the middleweight crown
[01:50.300]	Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
[01:54.320]	When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
[01:58.289]	Just like the time before and the time before that.
[02:01.130]	In Paterson that' s just the way things go.
[02:04.760]	If you' re black you might as well not show up on the street
[02:09.240]	' Less you wanna draw the heat.
[02:18.500]	Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
[02:24.380]	Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
[02:28.500]	He said, " I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like
[02:30.550]	middleweights
[02:32.120]	They jumped into a white car with outofstate plates."
[02:35.530]	And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
[02:38.410]	Cop said, " Wait a minute, boys, this one' s not dead"
[02:42.540]	So they took him to the infirmary
[02:45.800]	And though this man could hardly see
[02:49.450]	They told him that he could identify the guilty men.
[03:01.860]	Fourn the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
[03:05.380]	Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
[03:07.170]	The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
[03:12.440]	Says, " Wha' d you bring him in here for? He ain' t the guy!"
[03:16.560]	Yes, here' s the story of the Hurricane,
[03:19.860]	The man the authorities came to blame
[03:23.510]	For somethin' that he never done.
[03:27.400]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been
[03:31.380]	The champion of the world.
[03:43.300]	Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
[03:46.620]	Rubin' s in South America, fightin' for his name
[03:50.130]	While Arthur Dexter Bradley' s still in the robbery game
[03:53.540]	And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody
[03:56.0]	to blame.
[03:57.640]	" Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
[04:00.930]	" Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
[04:04.460]	" You think you' d like to play ball with the law?"
[04:08.130]	" Think it mighta been that fighter that you saw runnin' that
[04:09.930]	night?"
[04:12.230]	" Don' t forget that you are white."
[04:18.560]	Arthur Dexter Bradley said, " I' m really not sure."
[04:27.270]	Cops said, " A poor boy like you could use a break
[04:29.750]	We got you for the motel job and we' re talkin' to your friend
[04:33.250]	Bello
[04:34.580]	Now you don' t wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
[04:38.800]	You' ll be doin' society a favor.
[04:41.980]	That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
[04:45.500]	We want to put his ass in stir
[04:47.200]	We want to pin this triple murder on him
[04:53.320]	He ain' t no Gentleman Jim."
[04:59.500]	Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
[05:08.0]	But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
[05:11.110]	It' s my work, he' d say, and I do it for pay
[05:15.200]	And when it' s over I' d just as soon go on my way
[05:19.700]	Up to some paradise
[05:22.200]	Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
[05:25.580]	And ride a horse along a trail.
[05:28.870]
[05:29.530]	But then they took him to the jailhouse
[05:32.930]	Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
[05:42.200]
[05:43.140]	All of Rubin' s cards were marked in advance
[05:48.730]	The trial was a pigcircus, he never had a chance.
[05:52.170]	The judge made Rubin' s witnesses drunkards from the slums
[05:55.730]	To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
[05:59.740]	And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.
[06:02.930]	No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
[06:06.580]	And though they could not produce the gun,
[06:10.380]	The D. A. said he was the one who did the deed
[06:14.450]	And the allwhite jury agreed.
[06:26.900]	Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
[06:29.780]	The crime was murder " one," guess who testified?
[06:32.100]	Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
[06:36.900]	And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
[06:40.670]	How can the life of such a man
[06:43.730]	Be in the palm of some fool' s hand?
[06:47.590]	To see him obviously framed
[06:51.300]	Couldn' t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
[06:55.850]	Where justice is a game.
[07:05.970]	Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
[07:10.190]	Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
[07:13.850]	While Rubin sits like Buddha in a tenfoot cell
[07:17.390]	An innocent man in a living hell.
[07:21.360]	Yes, that' s the story of the Hurricane,
[07:24.650]	But it won' t be over till they clear his name
[07:28.800]	And give him back the time he' s done.
[07:31.380]	Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been
[07:35.980]	The champion of the world.

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