《Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)》歌词

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

[00:00:07] Billy Rose was a low rider Billy Rose was a night fighter

[00:00:12] Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name

[00:00:18] Busted on a drunken charge

[00:00:21] Driving someone else's car

[00:00:23] The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame

[00:00:28] In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how

[00:00:33] Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded

[00:00:39] Knowing they'd remain the boss

[00:00:42] Knowing he would pay the cost

[00:00:44] They saw he was severely reprimanded

[00:00:51] In the blackest cell on "A" Block

[00:00:56] He hanged himself at dawn

[00:01:01] With a note stuck to the bunk head

[00:01:06] Don't mess with me just take me home

[00:01:11] Come and lay help us lay

[00:01:15] Young Billy down

[00:01:21] Luna was a Mexican the law called an alien

[00:01:26] For coming across the border with a baby and a wife

[00:01:32] Though the clothes upon his back were wet

[00:01:34] Still he thought that he could get

[00:01:36] Some money and things to start a life

[00:01:42] It hadn't been too very long

[00:01:44] When it seemed like everything went wrong

[00:01:47] They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home

[00:01:52] This foreigner a brown-skin male

[00:01:55] Thrown into a Texas jail

[00:01:58] It left the wife and baby quite alone

[00:02:05] He eased the pain inside him

[00:02:10] With a needle in his arm

[00:02:14] But the dope just crucified him

[00:02:19] He died to no one's great alarm

[00:02:24] Come and lay help us lay

[00:02:29] Young Luna down

[00:02:34] And we're aze the prisons

[00:02:38] To the ground

[00:02:44] Kilowatt was an aging con of 65

[00:02:47] Who stood a chance to stay alive

[00:02:50] And leave the joint and walk the streets again

[00:02:55] As the time he was to leave drew near

[00:02:57] He suffered all the joy and fear

[00:03:00] Of leaving 35 years in the pen

[00:03:07] And on the day of his release

[00:03:09] He was approached by the police

[00:03:12] Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side

[00:03:18] The warden said "You won't remain here

[00:03:20] But it seems a state retainer

[00:03:23] Claims another 10 years of your life "

[00:03:29] He stepped out in the Texas sunlight

[00:03:35] The cops all stood around

[00:03:40] Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards

[00:03:44] Then threw himself down on the ground

[00:03:49] They might as well just have laid

[00:03:54] The old man down

[00:03:59] And we're gonna raze raze the prisons

[00:04:04] To the ground

[00:04:08] Help us raze raze the prisons

[00:04:13] To the ground