Hurricane by Bob Dylan

Pistol shots (1)________ 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 (2)________ all!'
Here comes 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 time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Three bodies lyin' there does (3)__________ see
And another man (4)__________ Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
'I didn't do it,' he says, and he throws 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 calls 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 (5)____________ 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 over to the side of the road
Just (6)________ the time (7)____________ and the time before that.
In Paterson that's just the way (8)____________ go.
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you (9)__________ draw the heat.

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
Him and Arthur Dexter (10)______________ were just out prowlin' around
He said, 'I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like 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 they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
Take him to the hospital and (11)________ bring him upstairs.
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, 'Wha'd you bring him in (12)________ 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 time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
Rubin's in (13)__________ America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur (14)____________ Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
'Remember (15)________ murder that happened in a bar?'
'Remember you said you saw the getaway car?'
'You think you'd (16)________ to play ball with the law?'
'Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?'
'Don't forget that you are white.'

Arthur Dexter Bradley said, 'I'm really not sure.'
Cops said, 'A poor boy like you (17)__________ use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to (18)________ 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 brave 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 (19)________ it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the (20)__________ 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 (21)________ marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
The judge made Rubin's (22)__________________ drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the (23)__________ folks he was just a crazy nigger.
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
And though they could not produce the gun,
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.

Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
The (24)__________ was murder 'one,' guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, (25)________ 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 (26)________ me feel ashamed to (27)________ in a land
Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and (28)__________ ties
Are free to drink martinis 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 (29)________ he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

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