Hurricane - Bob Dylan <br /><br />Am F Am F <br /><br />Am F <br />Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night <br />Am F <br />enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall <br />Am F <br />She sees the bartender in a pool of blood <br />Am F <br />Cries out "My God they killed them all!" <br />C F <br />Here comes the story of the Hurricane, <br />C F <br />The man the authorities came to blame <br />Dm C <br />for something that he never done <br />Dm C <br />Put in a prison cell but one time <br />Em Am F C G Am F Am F <br />he could have been the champion of the world <br /><br />Three bodied lying there does Patty see <br />and another man named Bello moving mysteriously <br />"I didn't do it" he says, and he throws up his hands <br />"I was only robbin the register, I hope you understand <br />I saw them leavin," he says and he stops <br />One of us had better call the cops <br />so Patty calls the cops <br />and they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin <br />in the hot New Jersey night <br /><br />Meanwhile somewhere in another part of town <br />Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving around <br />number one contender for the middleweight crown <br />had no idea what kind of shit was about to go down <br />when a cop pulled him over on the side of the road <br />just like the time before and the time before that <br />in Paterson that just the ways things go <br />If you black you might as well not show up on the streets <br />Less you wanna draw the heat <br /><br />Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops <br />Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin around <br />He said "I saw two men runnin out, they looked like middleweights <br />They jumped into a white car with out of state plates" <br />And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head <br />Cop said "Wait a minute boys, this one's not dead" <br />so they took him to the infirmary <br />and although this man could hardly see <br />they told him that he could identify the guilty men <br /><br />Four in the morning and they haul Rubin in <br />Take him to the hospital and bring him upstairs <br />the wounded man looks up though his one dying eye <br />says "why'd you bring him here for? he ain't the guy!" <br />Yes, here the story of the Hurricane <br />The man the authorities came to blame <br />for something that he never done <br />put in a prison cell but one time he could've been <br />the champion of the world <br /><br />Four months later the ghetto's in flame <br />Rubin's in South America fightin for his name <br />while Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game <br />and the cops are puttin the screw to him looking for somebody to blame <br />"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?" <br />"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?" <br />"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?" <br />"Think it might have been that fighter that you saw running that night?" <br />"Don't forget that you are white" <br /><br />Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure" <br /> "A poor boy like you could really use a break
