Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)-Joan Baez

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Joan Baez [00:05.968]Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter [00:11.248]Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name [00:17.239]Busted on a drunken charge [00:19.687]Driving someone else's car [00:22.207]The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame [00:27.111]In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how [00:32.087]Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded [00:38.168]Knowing they'd remain the boss [00:40.671]Knowing he would pay the cost [00:43.183]They saw he was severely reprimanded [00:50.383]In the blackest cell on A Block [00:55.008]He hanged himself at dawn [00:59.903]With a note stuck to the bunk head [01:04.752]Don't mess with me, just take me home [01:09.424]Come and lay, help us lay [01:13.848]young Billy down [01:19.508]Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien [01:24.444]For coming across the border with a baby and a wife [01:30.620]All the clothes upon his back were wet [01:33.187]Still he thought that he could get [01:35.444]Some money and things to start a life [01:40.534]It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong [01:45.964]Didn't even have the time to find themselves a home [01:51.405]This foreigner, a brown-skin male [01:54.212]Thrown inside a Texas jail [01:56.532]Left the wife and baby quite alone [02:03.608]He eased the pain inside him [02:08.699]With a needle in his arm [02:13.492]But the dope just crucified him [02:18.355]And he died to no one's great alarm [02:22.994]Come and lay, help us lay [02:27.570]Poor Luna down [02:32.702]And we'll raze, raze the prisons [02:37.362]To the ground [02:42.907]Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive [02:48.610]And leave the joint and walk the streets again [02:53.525]As the time he was to leave drew near [02:55.958]He suffered all the joy and fear [02:58.318]Of leaving 35 years in the pain [03:05.994]And on the day of his release he was approached by the police [03:10.545]Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side [03:16.876]The warden said You won't remain here [03:19.484]But it seems a state retainer [03:21.939]Claims another 10 years of your life. [03:28.278]He stepped out in the Texas sunlight [03:33.845]And the cops all stood around [03:38.620]Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards [03:43.429]Then threw himself down on the ground [03:47.880]They might as well just have laid [03:52.664]That old man down [03:57.727]But we're gonna raze, raze the prisons [04:02.638]To the ground [04:07.478]Help us raze, raze the prisons [04:12.337]To the ground