[00:05.60]Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
[00:10.47]Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
[00:16.72]Busted on a drunken charge
[00:19.20]Driving someone else's car
[00:21.66]The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame
[00:27.40]In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how
[00:31.55]Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
[00:37.72]Knowing they'd remain the boss
[00:40.27]Knowing he would pay the cost
[00:42.67]They saw he was severely reprimanded
[00:48.70]
[00:49.97]In the blackest cell on "A" Block
[00:54.43]He hanged himself at dawn
[00:59.35]With a note stuck to the bunk head
[01:04.39]Don't mess with me, just take me home
[01:05.40]
[01:09.28]Come and lay, help us lay
[01:13.60]young Billy down
[01:14.77]
[01:19.67]Luna was a Mexican the law called an alien
[01:23.90]For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
[01:30.20]Though the clothes upon his back were wet
[01:32.74]Still he thought that he could get
[01:35.18]Some money and things to start a life
[01:36.54]
[01:40.23]It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong
[01:45.12]They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home
[01:50.95]This foreigner, a brown-skin male
[01:54.41]Thrown into a Texas jail
[01:56.38]It left the wife and baby quite alone
[02:00.55]
[02:04.07]He eased the pain inside him
[02:08.26]With a needle in his arm
[02:13.12]But the dope just crucified him
[02:17.99]He died to no one's great alarm
[02:20.02]
[02:22.90]Come and lay, help us lay
[02:27.27]Young Luna down
[02:33.35]And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons
[02:37.18]To the ground
[02:40.09]
[02:42.77]Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive
[02:48.54]And leave the joint and walk the streets again
[02:53.24]As the time he was to leave drew near
[02:55.86]He suffered all the joy and fear
[02:58.21]Of leaving 35 years in the pen
[02:59.60]
[03:05.43]And on the day of his release he was approached by the police
[03:10.32]Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
[03:16.68]The warden said "You won't remain here
[03:19.12]But it seems a state retainer
[03:21.59]Claims another 10 years of your life."
[03:28.44]
[03:33.65]He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
[03:38.35]The cops all stood around
[03:39.64]Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
[03:43.33]Then threw himself down on the ground
[03:47.53]
[03:52.50]They might as well just have laid
[03:55.55]The old man down
[03:57.70]And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons
[04:02.38]To the ground
[04:07.29]Help us raze, raze the prisons
[04:11.95]To the ground