Versuri Baez - Prison trilogy (billy rose)
Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
Joan Baez
Billy Rose was a low rider
Billy Rose was a night fighter
Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
Busted on a drunken charge
Driving someone elses car
The local midnight sheriffs claim to fame
In an Arizona jail
There are some wholl tell the tale
How Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
Knowing they remained the boss
Knowing he would pay the cost
They saw he was severely reprimanded
In the blackest cell on A block
He hanged himself at dawn
With a note stuck to the blanket
Dont mess with me, just take me home
Come and lay, help us lay young Billy down
Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien
For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
While the clothes upon his back were wet
Still he thought that he could get
Some money and things to start a life
It hadnt been too very long
When it seemed like everything went wrong
Didnt even have the time to find themselves a home
With this foreigner, a brown skinned male
Thrown inside a Texas jail
Left the wife and baby quite alone
He eased the pain inside him with a needle in his arm
But the dope just crucified him, and he died to no ones great alarm
Come and lay, help us lay, poor Luna down
And well raze, raze the prisons to the ground
Kilowatt was an aging con of 65
Who stood a chance to stay alive and leave the joint
And walk the streets again
As the time he was to leave drew near
He suffered all the joy and fear of leaving 35 years in the pen
Then on the day of his release
He was approached by the police
Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
The warden said You wont remain here,
But it seems the state retainer
Claims another 10 years of your life.
He stepped out in Texas sunlight
And the cops all stood around
Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
Then threw himself down on the ground
They might as well just have laid that old man down
But were gonna raze, raze the prisons to the ground
Help us raze, raze the prisons to the ground
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