《Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) (Album Version)》歌词

歌曲： Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) (Album Version)

所属专辑：The Complete A&M Recordings

歌手： Joan Baez

时长： 04:23

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Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) - Joan Baez[00:00:00]

Billy Rose was a low rider Billy Rose was a night fighter[00:00:05]

Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name[00:00:10]

Busted on a drunken charge[00:00:17]

Driving someone else's car[00:00:19]

The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame[00:00:21]

In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how[00:00:26]

Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded[00:00:31]

Knowing they'd remain the boss[00:00:37]

Knowing he would pay the cost[00:00:40]

They saw he was severely reprimanded[00:00:42]

In the blackest cell on "A" Block[00:00:49]

He hanged himself at dawn[00:00:54]

With a note stuck to the bunk head[00:00:59]

Don't mess with me just take me home[00:01:04]

Come and lay help us lay[00:01:09]

Young Billy down[00:01:13]

Luna was a Mexican the law called an alien[00:01:19]

For coming across the border with a baby and a wife[00:01:24]

Though the clothes upon his back were wet[00:01:30]

Still he thought that he could get[00:01:32]

Some money and things to start a life[00:01:35]

It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong[00:01:40]

They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home[00:01:45]

This foreigner a brown-skin male[00:01:51]

Thrown into a Texas jail[00:01:53]

It left the wife and baby quite alone[00:01:56]

He eased the pain inside him[00:02:03]

With a needle in his arm[00:02:08]

But the d**e just crucified him[00:02:13]

He died to no one's great alarm[00:02:18]

Come and lay help us lay[00:02:22]

Young Luna down[00:02:27]

And we're gonna raze raze the prisons[00:02:32]

To the ground[00:02:37]

Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive[00:02:42]

And leave the joint and walk the streets again[00:02:48]

As the time he was to leave drew near[00:02:53]

He suffered all the joy and fear[00:02:55]

Of leaving 35 years in the pen[00:02:58]

And on the day of his release he was approached by the police[00:03:05]

Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side[00:03:10]

The warden said "You won't remain here[00:03:16]

But it seems a state retainer[00:03:19]

Claims another 10 years of your life "[00:03:21]

He stepped out in the Texas sunlight[00:03:27]

The cops all stood around[00:03:33]

Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards[00:03:38]

Then threw himself down on the ground[00:03:43]

They might as well just have laid[00:03:47]

The old man down[00:03:52]

And we're gonna raze raze the prisons[00:03:57]

To the ground[00:04:02]

Help us raze raze the prisons[00:04:07]

To the ground[00:04:11]

1971 1972 Chandos Music (ASCAP)[00:04:13]