《Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose) (Album Version)》歌词

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

[00:00:05] Billy Rose was a low rider Billy Rose was a night fighter

[00:00:10] Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name

[00:00:17] Busted on a drunken charge

[00:00:19] Driving someone else's car

[00:00:21] The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame

[00:00:26] In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how

[00:00:31] Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded

[00:00:37] Knowing they'd remain the boss

[00:00:40] Knowing he would pay the cost

[00:00:42] They saw he was severely reprimanded

[00:00:49] In the blackest cell on "A" Block

[00:00:54] He hanged himself at dawn

[00:00:59] With a note stuck to the bunk head

[00:01:04] Don't mess with me just take me home

[00:01:09] Come and lay help us lay

[00:01:13] Young Billy down

[00:01:19] Luna was a Mexican the law called an alien

[00:01:24] For coming across the border with a baby and a wife

[00:01:30] Though the clothes upon his back were wet

[00:01:32] Still he thought that he could get

[00:01:35] Some money and things to start a life

[00:01:40] It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong

[00:01:45] They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home

[00:01:51] This foreigner a brown-skin male

[00:01:53] Thrown into a Texas jail

[00:01:56] It left the wife and baby quite alone

[00:02:03] He eased the pain inside him

[00:02:08] With a needle in his arm

[00:02:13] But the d**e just crucified him

[00:02:18] He died to no one's great alarm

[00:02:22] Come and lay help us lay

[00:02:27] Young Luna down

[00:02:32] And we're gonna raze raze the prisons

[00:02:37] To the ground

[00:02:42] Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive

[00:02:48] And leave the joint and walk the streets again

[00:02:53] As the time he was to leave drew near

[00:02:55] He suffered all the joy and fear

[00:02:58] Of leaving 35 years in the pen

[00:03:05] And on the day of his release he was approached by the police

[00:03:10] Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side

[00:03:16] The warden said "You won't remain here

[00:03:19] But it seems a state retainer

[00:03:21] Claims another 10 years of your life "

[00:03:27] He stepped out in the Texas sunlight

[00:03:33] The cops all stood around

[00:03:38] Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards

[00:03:43] Then threw himself down on the ground

[00:03:47] They might as well just have laid

[00:03:52] The old man down

[00:03:57] And we're gonna raze raze the prisons

[00:04:02] To the ground

[00:04:07] Help us raze raze the prisons

[00:04:11] To the ground

[00:04:13] 1971 1972 Chandos Music (ASCAP)