Hurricane by Bob Dylan

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, 'My God, they've killed them all!'
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he (1)__________ done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Three bodies lyin' there (2)________ Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
'I didn't do it,' he says, and he (3)____________ up his hands
'I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them leavin',' he says, and he stops
'One of us had better call up the cops.'
And so Patty (4)__________ the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.

Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him (5)________ to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that's (6)________ the way things go.
If you're black you might as well not (7)________ up on the street
'Less you (8)__________ draw the heat.

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said, 'I saw two men runnin' out, they looked (9)________ middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates.'
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cop said, 'Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead'
So (10)________ took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him (11)________ he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, 'Wha'd you (12)__________ him in here for? He ain't the guy!'
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one (13)________ he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Four months later, the (14)______________ are in flame,
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
'Remember that murder (15)________ happened in a bar?'
'Remember you said you saw the getaway car?'
'You think you'd like to play ball (16)________ the law?'
'Think it might-a (17)________ that fighter (18)________ you saw runnin' that night?'
'Don't forget that you are white.'

Arthur Dexter Bradley said, 'I'm (19)____________ not sure.'
Cops said, 'A poor boy like you (20)__________ use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
You'll be doin' society a favor.
That sonofabitch is (21)__________ and gettin' braver.
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim.'

Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to the jail house
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

All of Rubin's cards were (22)____________ in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
The judge (23)________ Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
And though they could not (24)______________ the gun,
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.

Rubin Carter was (25)______________ tried.
The (26)__________ was murder 'one,' guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me (27)________ ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to (28)__________ (29)________________ and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

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