Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) Lyrics

Song	Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
Artist	Joan Baez
Album	The Best Of Joan C. Baez
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	作曲 : Joan Baez
	Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
	Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
	Busted on a drunken charge
	Driving someone else's car
	The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame
	In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how
	Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
	Knowing they'd remain the boss
	Knowing he would pay the cost
	They saw he was severely reprimanded

	In the blackest cell on A Block
	He hanged himself at dawn
	With a note stuck to the bunk head
	Don't mess with me, just take me home
	Come and lay, help us lay
	young Billy down

	Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien
	For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
	Though the clothes upon his back were wet
	Still he thought that he could get
	Some money and things to start a life
	It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong
	Didn't even have the time to find themselves a home
	This foreigner, a brown-skin male
	Thrown inside a Texas jail
	It left the wife and baby quite alone

	He eased the pain inside him
	With a needle in his arm
	But the dope just crucified him
	He died to no one's great alarm
	Come and lay, help us lay
	Poor Luna down

	And we'll raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground

	Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive
	And leave the joint and walk the streets again
	As the time he was to leave drew near
	He suffered all the joy and fear
	Of leaving 35 years in the pen

	And on the day of his release he was approached by the police
	Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
	The warden said You won't remain here
	But it seems a state retainer
	Claims another 10 years of your life.

	He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
	The cops all stood around
	Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
	Then threw himself down on the ground
	They might as well just have laid
	The old man down

	And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground
	Help us raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground

	zuo qu : Joan Baez
	Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
	Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
	Busted on a drunken charge
	Driving someone else' s car
	The local midnight sheriff' s claim to fame
	In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how
	Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
	Knowing they' d remain the boss
	Knowing he would pay the cost
	They saw he was severely reprimanded

	In the blackest cell on A Block
	He hanged himself at dawn
	With a note stuck to the bunk head
	Don' t mess with me, just take me home
	Come and lay, help us lay
	young Billy down

	Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien
	For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
	Though the clothes upon his back were wet
	Still he thought that he could get
	Some money and things to start a life
	It hadn' t been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong
	Didn' t even have the time to find themselves a home
	This foreigner, a brownskin male
	Thrown inside a Texas jail
	It left the wife and baby quite alone

	He eased the pain inside him
	With a needle in his arm
	But the dope just crucified him
	He died to no one' s great alarm
	Come and lay, help us lay
	Poor Luna down

	And we' ll raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground

	Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive
	And leave the joint and walk the streets again
	As the time he was to leave drew near
	He suffered all the joy and fear
	Of leaving 35 years in the pen

	And on the day of his release he was approached by the police
	Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
	The warden said You won' t remain here
	But it seems a state retainer
	Claims another 10 years of your life.

	He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
	The cops all stood around
	Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
	Then threw himself down on the ground
	They might as well just have laid
	The old man down

	And we' re gonna raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground
	Help us raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground

	zuò qǔ : Joan Baez
	Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
	Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
	Busted on a drunken charge
	Driving someone else' s car
	The local midnight sheriff' s claim to fame
	In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how
	Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
	Knowing they' d remain the boss
	Knowing he would pay the cost
	They saw he was severely reprimanded

	In the blackest cell on A Block
	He hanged himself at dawn
	With a note stuck to the bunk head
	Don' t mess with me, just take me home
	Come and lay, help us lay
	young Billy down

	Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien
	For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
	Though the clothes upon his back were wet
	Still he thought that he could get
	Some money and things to start a life
	It hadn' t been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong
	Didn' t even have the time to find themselves a home
	This foreigner, a brownskin male
	Thrown inside a Texas jail
	It left the wife and baby quite alone

	He eased the pain inside him
	With a needle in his arm
	But the dope just crucified him
	He died to no one' s great alarm
	Come and lay, help us lay
	Poor Luna down

	And we' ll raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground

	Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive
	And leave the joint and walk the streets again
	As the time he was to leave drew near
	He suffered all the joy and fear
	Of leaving 35 years in the pen

	And on the day of his release he was approached by the police
	Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
	The warden said You won' t remain here
	But it seems a state retainer
	Claims another 10 years of your life.

	He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
	The cops all stood around
	Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
	Then threw himself down on the ground
	They might as well just have laid
	The old man down

	And we' re gonna raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground
	Help us raze, raze the prisons
	To the ground

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