Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) Lyrics

Song	Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
Artist	Joan Baez
Album	Classics, Vol. 8
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[00:00.00]	作曲 : Joan Baez
[00:05.34]	Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
[00:10.68]	Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
[00:16.53]	Busted on a drunken charge
[00:19.02]	Driving someone else's car
[00:21.48]	The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame
[00:26.49]	In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how
[00:31.38]	Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
[00:37.50]	Knowing they'd remain the boss
[00:39.99]	Knowing he would pay the cost
[00:42.42]	They saw he was severely reprimanded
[00:49.71]	In the blackest cell on A Block
[00:56.28]	He hanged himself at dawn
[00:59.37]	With a note stuck to the bunk head
[01:04.17]	Don't mess with me, just take me home
[01:08.91]	Come and lay, help us lay
[01:19.29]	young Billy down
[01:19.59]	Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien
[01:23.79]	For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
[01:30.03]	Though the clothes upon his back were wet
[01:32.58]	Still he thought that he could get
[01:34.80]	Some money and things to start a life
[01:39.93]	It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong
[01:45.30]	Didn't even have the time to find themselves a home
[01:50.94]	This foreigner, a brown-skin male
[01:53.55]	Thrown inside a Texas jail
[01:55.95]	It left the wife and baby quite alone
[02:04.83]	He eased the pain inside him
[02:10.11]	With a needle in his arm
[02:14.58]	But the **** just crucified him
[02:17.88]	He died to no one's great alarm
[02:22.44]	Come and lay, help us lay
[02:25.59]	Poor Luna down
[02:32.04]	And we'll raze, raze the prisons
[02:36.84]	To the ground
[02:42.24]	Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive
[02:48.21]	And leave the joint and walk the streets again
[02:52.92]	As the time he was to leave drew near
[02:55.44]	He suffered all the joy and fear
[02:57.87]	Of leaving 35 years in the pen
[03:05.37]	And on the day of his release he was approached by the police
[03:10.11]	Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
[03:16.26]	The warden said You won't remain here
[03:18.90]	But it seems a state retainer
[03:21.15]	Claims another 10 years of your life.
[03:27.96]	He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
[03:33.39]	The cops all stood around
[03:39.72]	Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
[03:42.87]	Then threw himself down on the ground
[03:47.10]	They might as well just have laid
[03:50.64]	The old man down
[03:57.15]	And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons
[04:02.01]	To the ground
[04:06.78]	Help us raze, raze the prisons
[04:11.55]	To the ground

[00:00.00]	zuo qu : Joan Baez
[00:05.34]	Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
[00:10.68]	Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
[00:16.53]	Busted on a drunken charge
[00:19.02]	Driving someone else' s car
[00:21.48]	The local midnight sheriff' s claim to fame
[00:26.49]	In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how
[00:31.38]	Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
[00:37.50]	Knowing they' d remain the boss
[00:39.99]	Knowing he would pay the cost
[00:42.42]	They saw he was severely reprimanded
[00:49.71]	In the blackest cell on A Block
[00:56.28]	He hanged himself at dawn
[00:59.37]	With a note stuck to the bunk head
[01:04.17]	Don' t mess with me, just take me home
[01:08.91]	Come and lay, help us lay
[01:19.29]	young Billy down
[01:19.59]	Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien
[01:23.79]	For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
[01:30.03]	Though the clothes upon his back were wet
[01:32.58]	Still he thought that he could get
[01:34.80]	Some money and things to start a life
[01:39.93]	It hadn' t been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong
[01:45.30]	Didn' t even have the time to find themselves a home
[01:50.94]	This foreigner, a brownskin male
[01:53.55]	Thrown inside a Texas jail
[01:55.95]	It left the wife and baby quite alone
[02:04.83]	He eased the pain inside him
[02:10.11]	With a needle in his arm
[02:14.58]	But the just crucified him
[02:17.88]	He died to no one' s great alarm
[02:22.44]	Come and lay, help us lay
[02:25.59]	Poor Luna down
[02:32.04]	And we' ll raze, raze the prisons
[02:36.84]	To the ground
[02:42.24]	Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive
[02:48.21]	And leave the joint and walk the streets again
[02:52.92]	As the time he was to leave drew near
[02:55.44]	He suffered all the joy and fear
[02:57.87]	Of leaving 35 years in the pen
[03:05.37]	And on the day of his release he was approached by the police
[03:10.11]	Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
[03:16.26]	The warden said You won' t remain here
[03:18.90]	But it seems a state retainer
[03:21.15]	Claims another 10 years of your life.
[03:27.96]	He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
[03:33.39]	The cops all stood around
[03:39.72]	Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
[03:42.87]	Then threw himself down on the ground
[03:47.10]	They might as well just have laid
[03:50.64]	The old man down
[03:57.15]	And we' re gonna raze, raze the prisons
[04:02.01]	To the ground
[04:06.78]	Help us raze, raze the prisons
[04:11.55]	To the ground

[00:00.00]	zuò qǔ : Joan Baez
[00:05.34]	Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
[00:10.68]	Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
[00:16.53]	Busted on a drunken charge
[00:19.02]	Driving someone else' s car
[00:21.48]	The local midnight sheriff' s claim to fame
[00:26.49]	In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how
[00:31.38]	Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
[00:37.50]	Knowing they' d remain the boss
[00:39.99]	Knowing he would pay the cost
[00:42.42]	They saw he was severely reprimanded
[00:49.71]	In the blackest cell on A Block
[00:56.28]	He hanged himself at dawn
[00:59.37]	With a note stuck to the bunk head
[01:04.17]	Don' t mess with me, just take me home
[01:08.91]	Come and lay, help us lay
[01:19.29]	young Billy down
[01:19.59]	Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien
[01:23.79]	For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
[01:30.03]	Though the clothes upon his back were wet
[01:32.58]	Still he thought that he could get
[01:34.80]	Some money and things to start a life
[01:39.93]	It hadn' t been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong
[01:45.30]	Didn' t even have the time to find themselves a home
[01:50.94]	This foreigner, a brownskin male
[01:53.55]	Thrown inside a Texas jail
[01:55.95]	It left the wife and baby quite alone
[02:04.83]	He eased the pain inside him
[02:10.11]	With a needle in his arm
[02:14.58]	But the just crucified him
[02:17.88]	He died to no one' s great alarm
[02:22.44]	Come and lay, help us lay
[02:25.59]	Poor Luna down
[02:32.04]	And we' ll raze, raze the prisons
[02:36.84]	To the ground
[02:42.24]	Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive
[02:48.21]	And leave the joint and walk the streets again
[02:52.92]	As the time he was to leave drew near
[02:55.44]	He suffered all the joy and fear
[02:57.87]	Of leaving 35 years in the pen
[03:05.37]	And on the day of his release he was approached by the police
[03:10.11]	Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
[03:16.26]	The warden said You won' t remain here
[03:18.90]	But it seems a state retainer
[03:21.15]	Claims another 10 years of your life.
[03:27.96]	He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
[03:33.39]	The cops all stood around
[03:39.72]	Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
[03:42.87]	Then threw himself down on the ground
[03:47.10]	They might as well just have laid
[03:50.64]	The old man down
[03:57.15]	And we' re gonna raze, raze the prisons
[04:02.01]	To the ground
[04:06.78]	Help us raze, raze the prisons
[04:11.55]	To the ground

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