[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:07.69]Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night [00:18.69]Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall [00:22.90]She sees the bartender in a pool of blood [00:26.94]Cries out "My God they killed them all " [00:30.54]Here comes the story of the Hurricane [00:34.35]The man the authorities came to blame [00:37.91]For somethin' that he never done [00:41.66]Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been [00:45.19]The champion of the world [00:50.61]Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see [01:01.62]And another man named Bello movin' around mysteriously [01:03.59]"I didn't do it " he says and he throws up his hands [01:08.88]"I was only robbin' the register I hope you understand [01:11.27]I saw them leavin' " he says and he stops [01:15.79]"One of us had better call up the cops " [01:18.85]And so Patty calls the cops [01:21.74]And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin' [01:27.64]In the hot New Jersey night [01:34.14]Meanwhile far away in another part of town [01:43.13]Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around [01:46.80]Number one contender for the middleweight crown [01:50.30]Had no idea what kinda sh*t was about to go down [01:54.31]When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road [01:58.28]Just like the time before and the time before that [02:01.13]In Paterson that's just the way things go [02:04.76]If you're black you might as well not show up on the street [02:09.24]'Less you wanna draw the heat [02:18.05]Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops [02:24.38]Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around [02:28.05]He said "I saw two men runnin' out they looked like [02:30.54]Middleweights [02:32.11]They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates " [02:35.53]And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head [02:38.41]Cop said "Wait a minute boys this one's not dead" [02:42.53]So they took him to the infirmary [02:45.80]And though this man could hardly see [02:49.45]They told him that he could identify the guilty men [03:01.86]Fourn the mornin' and they haul Rubin in [03:05.37]Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs [03:07.17]The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye [03:12.43]Says "Wha'd you bring him in here for He ain't the guy " [03:16.56]Yes here's the story of the Hurricane [03:19.86]The man the authorities came to blame [03:23.51]For somethin' that he never done [03:27.40]Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been [03:31.38]The champion of the world [03:43.30]Four months later the ghettos are in flame [03:46.62]Rubin's in South America fightin' for his name [03:50.13]While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game [03:53.53]And the cops are puttin' the screws to him lookin' for somebody [03:55.99]To blame [03:57.63]"Remember that murder that happened in a bar " [04:00.92]"Remember you said you saw the getaway car " [04:04.45]"You think you'd like to play ball with the law " [04:08.13]"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that [04:09.93]Night " [04:12.23]"Don't forget that you are white " [04:18.55]Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure " [04:27.27]Cops said " A poor boy like you could use a break [04:29.74]We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend [04:33.25]Bello [04:34.58]Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail be a nice fellow [04:38.80]You'll be doin' society a favor [04:41.98]That sonofa***** is brave and gettin' braver [04:45.50]We want to put his a** in stir [04:47.02]We want to pin this triple murder on him [04:53.31]He ain't no Gentleman Jim " [04:59.05]Rubin could take a man out with just one punch [05:08.00]But he never did like to talk about it all that much [05:11.11]It's my work he'd say and I do it for pay [05:15.19]And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way [05:19.06]Up to some paradise [05:22.19]Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice [05:25.58]And ride a horse along a trail [05:29.52]But then they took him to the jailhouse [05:32.92]Where they try to turn a man into a mouse [05:43.13]All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance [05:48.72]The trial was a pig-circus he never had a chance [05:52.17]The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums [05:55.72]To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum [05:59.74]And to the black folks he was just a crazy n****r [06:02.92]No one doubted that he pulled the trigger [06:06.58]And though they could not produce the gun [06:10.37]The D A said he was the one who did the deed [06:14.44]And the all-white jury agreed [06:26.08]Rubin Carter was falsely tried [06:29.77]The crime was murder "one " guess who testified [06:32.10]Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied [06:36.89]And the newspapers they all went along for the ride [06:40.67]How can the life of such a man [06:43.72]Be in the palm of some fool's hand [06:47.59]To see him obviously framed [06:51.30]Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land [06:55.85]Where justice is a game [07:05.96]Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties [07:10.19]Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise [07:13.84]While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell [07:17.38]An innocent man in a living hell [07:21.36]Yes that's the story of the Hurricane [07:24.64]But it won't be over till they clear his name [07:28.07]And give him back the time he's done [07:31.37]Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been [07:35.97]The champion of the world