《Hurricane》歌词

歌曲： Hurricane

所属专辑：Essential Folk Music， Vol. 3

歌手： Hit Crew Masters

时长： 09:02

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Hurricane - InstaHit Crew[00:00:00]

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night[00:00:15]

Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.[00:00:19]

She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,[00:00:23]

Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"[00:00:27]

Here comes the story of the Hurricane,[00:00:30]

The man the authorities came to blame[00:00:34]

For somethin' that he never done.[00:00:38]

Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been[00:00:42]

The champion of the world.[00:00:46]

Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see[00:00:58]

And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.[00:01:02]

"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands[00:01:06]

"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.[00:01:09]

I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops[00:01:13]

"One of us had better call up the cops."[00:01:17]

And so Patty calls the cops[00:01:21]

And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'[00:01:24]

In the hot New Jersey night.[00:01:28]

Meanwhile, far away in another part of town[00:01:41]

Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.[00:01:45]

Number one contender for the middleweight crown[00:01:48]

Had no idea what kinda sh*t was about to go down[00:01:52]

When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road[00:01:56]

Just like the time before and the time before that.[00:02:00]

In Paterson that's just the way things go.[00:02:03]

If you're black you might as well not show up on the street[00:02:07]

'Less you wanna draw the heat.[00:02:11]

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.[00:02:24]

Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around[00:02:27]

He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like[00:02:31]

Middleweights[00:02:34]

They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."[00:02:35]

And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.[00:02:39]

Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"[00:02:42]

So they took him to the infirmary[00:02:46]

And though this man could hardly see[00:02:50]

They told him that he could identify the guilty men.[00:02:53]

Fourn the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,[00:03:07]

Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.[00:03:10]

The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye[00:03:14]

Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"[00:03:17]

Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,[00:03:22]

The man the authorities came to blame[00:03:25]

For somethin' that he never done.[00:03:29]

Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been[00:03:33]

The champion of the world.[00:03:37]

Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,[00:03:50]

Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name[00:03:53]

While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game[00:03:56]

And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody[00:04:00]

To blame.[00:04:03]

"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"[00:04:04]

"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"[00:04:08]

"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"[00:04:11]

"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that[00:04:15]

Night?"[00:04:18]

"Don't forget that you are white."[00:04:20]

Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."[00:04:33]

Cops said, " A poor boy like you could use a break[00:04:36]

We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend[00:04:39]

Bello[00:04:42]

Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.[00:04:43]

You'll be doin' society a favor.[00:04:47]

That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.[00:04:51]

We want to put his a** in stir[00:04:55]

We want to pin this triple murder on him[00:04:58]

He ain't no Gentleman Jim."[00:05:03]

Rubin could take a man out with just one punch[00:05:15]

But he never did like to talk about it all that much.[00:05:18]

It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay[00:05:22]

And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way[00:05:26]

Up to some paradise[00:05:30]

Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice[00:05:33]

And ride a horse along a trail.[00:05:37]

But then they took him to the jailhouse[00:05:41]

Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.[00:05:44]

All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance[00:05:58]

The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.[00:06:01]

The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums[00:06:05]

To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum[00:06:09]

And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.[00:06:13]

No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.[00:06:16]

And though they could not produce the gun,[00:06:20]

The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed[00:06:24]

And the all-white jury agreed.[00:06:28]

Rubin Carter was falsely tried.[00:06:42]

The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?[00:06:44]

Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied[00:06:48]

And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.[00:06:51]

How can the life of such a man[00:06:56]

Be in the palm of some fool's hand?[00:06:59]

To see him obviously framed[00:07:03]

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land[00:07:06]

Where justice is a game.[00:07:11]

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties[00:07:23]

Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise[00:07:27]

While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell[00:07:30]

An innocent man in a living hell.[00:07:34]

Yes, that's the story of the Hurricane,[00:07:38]

But it won't be over till they clear his name[00:07:42]

And give him back the time he's done.[00:07:46]

Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been[00:07:49]

The champion of the world.[00:07:54]