《The Hostage》歌词

[00:00:00] The Hostage - Tom Paxton

[00:00:20] I'm a guard in the great iron prison

[00:00:23] At least I was till now

[00:00:25] It was never a picnic social

[00:00:27] Never a date

[00:00:29] They never come in laughing

[00:00:31] And you know they never taught them how

[00:00:33] It was damn hard work

[00:00:34] And you wouldn't believe the pay

[00:00:38] It was early in the morning lord

[00:00:40] I wasn't but a half awake

[00:00:42] When the cons went nuts

[00:00:43] And took us by surprise

[00:00:46] I never was one for shaking

[00:00:48] But I found it hard to stand

[00:00:50] With a six-inch blade held right

[00:00:52] Between my eyes

[00:00:55] We could hear a siren blowing

[00:00:57] Somebody yelled in pain

[00:00:59] Then it got so quiet

[00:01:00] You could hear a bird walk by

[00:01:03] They all had masks on their faces

[00:01:05] Spoke with a voice of cain

[00:01:07] If they come in shooting

[00:01:08] Know you're bound to die

[00:01:11] If they come in shooting

[00:01:13] Know you're bound to die

[00:01:18] Well I turned to a buddy named Willie

[00:01:20] I said Willie it'll be all right

[00:01:22] If they meant to kill us

[00:01:23] We'd be half way down to hell

[00:01:26] See they high-jacked a plane in the dessert

[00:01:28] And the government screamed and cries

[00:01:31] But to save some lives

[00:01:32] They opened up a prison cell

[00:01:35] So the days kept coming and going

[00:01:37] Tension was getting high

[00:01:39] But I wasn't too worried

[00:01:40] I figured I knew the score

[00:01:43] I knew they were talking to someone

[00:01:45] I knew they were willing to try

[00:01:47] So I figured my freedom was a matter of

[00:01:49] A day or two more

[00:01:52] But Jesus early this morning

[00:01:54] The whirlybird dropped the gas

[00:01:56] It made me puke and it

[00:01:57] Brought me to my knees

[00:02:00] The bullets came like hail-stones

[00:02:02] I heard the first ones pass

[00:02:04] Then they cut down Willie

[00:02:05] And they got Jim kelly and me

[00:02:08] They cut down Willie

[00:02:09] And they got Jim kelly and me

[00:02:13] They come in yelling curses

[00:02:14] Like they were caught in the river rhine

[00:02:17] Shot down every god damned thing they saw

[00:02:21] And while I lay they wounded

[00:02:23] I took another one in my spine

[00:02:25] Poor Jim kelly took another one in his jaw

[00:02:29] Oh poor Jim kelly took another one in his jaw

[00:02:36] They say we had our throats cut

[00:02:38] By a band of desperate men

[00:02:40] Say they saved as many of us as they could

[00:02:44] Well the governor he should now it

[00:02:46] But I think I'll say it again

[00:02:48] That the governor cut my throat

[00:02:50] And he cut it good

[00:02:52] Let them take the governor

[00:02:54] Hold him for a couple of days

[00:02:57] See who goes in shooting to set him free

[00:03:00] Hell they'll open every jail in the country

[00:03:03] Send them on their way

[00:03:05] They'd never do to him

[00:03:06] What the governor done to me

[00:03:09] They'd never do to him

[00:03:10] What the governor done to me