Hurricane Lyrics and Chords
Verse 1
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Pistol shots ring out in
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The bar room night
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Enter Patty Valentine
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From the upper hall
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.. She sees the bartender
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In a pool of blood
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Cries out, “My God,
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They killed them all!”
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Here comes the story of
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The Hurricane
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The man the authorities
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Came to blame
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.. For something that
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He never done
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.. Put in a prison cell,
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But one time he coulda been
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The champion of the world
Music:
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.. Three bodies lying
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There does Patty see
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And another man named Bello,
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Moving around mysteriously
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“I didn’t do it, ” he says,
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And he throws up his hands
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“I was only robbing the register,
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I hope you understand
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I saw them leaving, he says,
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And he stops
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“One of us had better
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Call up the cops.”
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.. And so Patty calls the cops
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.. And they arrive on the scene
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With their red lights flashing
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In the hot New Jersey night ..
Music:
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Meanwhile, far away
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In another part of town
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Rubin Carter and a couple of
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Friends are driving around
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Number one contender
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For the middleweight crown
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Had no idea what kinda shit
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Was about to go down
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When a cop pulled him over
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To the side of the road
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Just like the time before
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And the time before that
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In Paterson that’s just
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The way things go
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If you’re black
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You might as well not show
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Up on the street
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Unless you want to draw
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The heat
Music:
Alfred Bello had a partner
And he had a rap for the cops
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley
Were just out prowling around
He said, “I saw two men
Running 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
Music:
Four in the morning
And they haul Rubin in
They take him to the hospital
And they bring him upstairs
The wounded man looks up
Through his one dying eye
Says, “What’d you bring 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 something that
He never done
Put in a prison cell,
But one time he coulda been
The champion of the world
Music:
Four months later,
The ghettos are in flame
Rubin’s in South America,
Fighting for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley’s
Still in the robbery game
And the cops are putting
The screws to him,
Looking for somebody to blame
“Remember that murder
That happened in a bar?”
“Remember you said
Tou saw the getaway car?”
“You think you’d like to
Play ball with the law?”
“Think it might-a been that
Fighter that you saw
Running that night?”
“Don’t forget that
You are white.”
Music:
Arthur Dexter Bradley said,
“I’m really not sure.”
Cops said, “A poor boy like you
Could 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 doing society a favor
That son of a bi*ch is
Brave and getting braver
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this
Triple murder on him
He ain’t no Gentleman Jim.”
