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Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
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Joan Baez
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Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
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Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
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Busted on a drunken charge, driving someone else's car
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The local Midnight Sheriff's claim to fame
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In an Arizona jail, there are some who tell the tale
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How Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
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Knowing they'd remain the boss, knowing he would pay the cost
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They saw he was severely reprimanded
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In the blackest cell on A block
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He hanged himself at dawn
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With a note stuck to the bunk head
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'Don't mess with me, just take me home'
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Come and lay, help us lay, young Billy down
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Luna was a Mexican, the law calls an alien
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For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
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Though the clothes upon his back were wet, still he thought
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That he could get some money and things to start a life
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It hadn't been too very long, when it seemed like everything went wrong
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Didn't even have the time to find themselves a home
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When this foreigner, a brown-skin male thrown inside a Texas jail
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Left the wife and baby quite alone
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He eased the pain inside him
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With a needle in his arm
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But the dope just crucified him
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And he died to no one's great alarm
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Come and lay, help us lay, poor Luna down
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And we'll raze, raze the prisons to the ground
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Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance
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To stay alive and leave the joint and walk the streets again
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As the time he was to leave drew near, he suffered all the joy and fear
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Of leaving 35 years in the pen
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Then on the day of his release, he was approached by the police
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Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
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The warden said, "You won't remain here
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But it seems a state retainer claims another 10 years of your life"
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He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
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And the cops all stood around
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Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
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Then threw himself down on the ground
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They might as well just have laid, that old man down
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But we're gonna raze, raze the prisons to the ground
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Help us raze, raze the prisons to the ground
joan baez-prison trilogy (billy rose)
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