Joan Baez – Prison Trilogy Billy Rose (Ukulele)

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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 

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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, how 

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Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded 

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Knowing they'd remain the boss 

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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 

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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 

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Still he thought that he could get 

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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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They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home 

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This foreigner, a brown-skin male 

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Thrown inside a Texas jail 

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It 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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He died to no one's great alarm 

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Come and lay, help us lay 

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Young Luna down 

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And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons 

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To the ground 

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Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive 

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And leave the joint and walk the streets again 

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As the time he was to leave drew near 

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He suffered all the joy and fear 

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Of leaving 35 years in the pen 

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And 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 

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Claims another 10 years of your life." 

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He stepped out in the Texas sunlight 

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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 

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The old man down 

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And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons 

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To the ground 

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Help us raze, raze the prisons 

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To the ground