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Prison Trilogy Billy Rose

Joan Baez

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Your gonna need a capo on the 1st to play along with the song. G Bm Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter C G D Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name Am Busted on a drunken charge C Driving someone else's car Cm G The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame G Bm In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale, how C G D Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded Am Knowing they'd remain the boss C Knowing he would pay the cost Cm G They saw he was severely reprimanded Em Bm In the blackest cell on A Block Em Bm He hanged himself at dawn Em Bm With a note stuck to the bunk head Am D Don't mess with me, just take me home Em D Come and lay, help us lay G young Billy down G Bm Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien C G D For coming across the border with a baby and a wife Am Though the clothes upon his back were wet C Still he thought that he could get Cm G Some money and things to start a life G Bm It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong C G D They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home Am This foreigner, a brown-skin male C Thrown inside a Texas jail Cm G It left the wife and baby quite alone Em Bm He eased the pain inside him Em Bm With a needle in his arm Em Bm But the dope just crucified him Am D He died to no one's great alarm Em D Come and lay, help us lay G Young Luna down Em D And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons G To the ground G Bm C Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive G D And leave the joint and walk the streets again Am As the time he was to leave drew near C He suffered all the joy and fear Cm G Of leaving 35 years in the pen G Bm And on the day of his release he was approached by the police C G D Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side Am The warden said "You won't remain here C But it seems a state retainer Cm G Claims another 10 years of your life." Em Bm He stepped out in the Texas sunlight Em Bm The cops all stood around Em Bm Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards Am D Then threw himself down on the ground Em D They might as well just have laid G The old man down Em D And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons G To the ground Em D Help us raze, raze the prisons G To the ground
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