Singer: Bob Dylan
Album: Selected Works of Bob Dylan 2
Gunfire rang out at the bar night.
Patty Valentine from the upper hall entered the room.
She saw the bartender lying in a pool of blood,
Crying, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the hurricane,
The man accused by the authorities
For something he has never done before.
In prison, but once he could
World champion.
Patty saw three bodies lying there.
Another man named Bello, walking around mysteriously.
"I didn't do it," he said, then raised his hands.
"I just robbed the cash register, I hope you can understand.
I saw them leave, "he said, and then stopped.
"One of us had better call the police."
So Patty called the police.
The red light flashed when they arrived at the scene.
On a hot night in New Jersey.
At the same time, in another place far from the city
Rubin Carter and some friends are driving around.
The number one contender for the middleweight crown
I don't know what will happen next
When a policeman stopped him by the side of the road
Just like the previous one and the previous one.
In Patterson, that's what happened.
If you are black, you'd better not appear in the street.
The less you want to get angry.
Alfred Bello has a partner. He has a policeman rapping.
He and Arthur Dexter Bradley are hanging out.
He said, "I saw two men running out. They looked like middleweight."
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state license plates. "
Miss Patty Valentine just nodded.
The policeman said, "Wait a minute, guys, this one is not dead."
So they took him to the infirmary.
Although this person can hardly see.
They told him that he could identify those who were guilty.
At four o'clock in the morning, they brought Rubin in.
Take him to the hospital, then they take him upstairs.
The injured man looked up through his dying eye.
He said, "Why did you bring him here? He is not that person! "
Yes, this is the story of a hurricane.
The man accused by the authorities
For something he has never done before.
In prison, but once he could
World champion.
Four months later, the ghetto was on fire,
Rubin is in South America, fighting for his name.
When Arthur Dexter Bradley was still playing the robbery game
The police are putting pressure on him to find someone to blame.
"Remember that murder in the bar?"
"Remember when you said you saw the getaway car?"
"Do you think you are willing to cooperate with the law?"
"Do you think that might be the boxer you saw that night? "
"Don't forget that you are white."
Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."
The policeman said, "a poor boy like you can have a rest."
We found your job in a motel, and we are talking to your friend Bello.
Now you don't want to go back to prison. Be a good person.
You will do a good thing for society.
That son of a bitch is brave, and he is getting braver and braver.
We want to stir up his ass.
We want to blame him for these three murders.
He is not a gentleman, Jim. "
Rubin can kill a man with only one punch.
But he never likes to talk about it.
He would say, this is my job, and I work for pay.
When this is over, I just want to go my own way.
Go to heaven
Where trout flow, the air is very good.
Ride along the path.
But then they took him to prison.
They tried to turn a person into a mouse.
All Rubin's cards are marked in advance.
The trial was a farce, and he had no chance.
The judge turned Rubin's witness into an alcoholic from a slum.
To the white people watching, he is a revolutionary tramp.
To a black man, he is just a crazy nigger.
No one suspected that he had pulled the trigger.
Although they can't make guns,
The D.A. said he did it.
The all-white jury agreed.
Rubin Carter was wrongly tried.
The charge is murder in the first degree. Guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley, they all lied openly.
And newspapers, and they all followed.
The life of such a person
In the hands of some fool?
Seeing that he was obviously framed.
I can't help but feel ashamed of living in a land.
Justice is a game.
Now all criminals in coats and ties
You can drink martinis freely and watch the sunrise.
When Rubin sits in a cell of 10 feet like a Buddha.
An innocent man lives in hell.
This is the story of the hurricane,
But it won't be over until they clear his name.
Give him back the time he finished.
In prison, but once he could
World champion.
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