Prison Trilogy-Joan Baez

[ti:Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Imagine] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Prison Trilogy - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:07.78]Billy Rose was a low rider Billy Rose was a night fighter [00:12.95]Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name [00:18.81]Busted on a drunken charge [00:21.34]Driving someone else's car [00:23.69]The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame [00:27.92] [00:28.66]In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how [00:33.60]Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded [00:37.68] [00:39.80]Knowing they'd remain the boss [00:42.17]Knowing he would pay the cost [00:44.66]They saw he was severely reprimanded [00:51.15] [00:51.85]In the blackest cell on "A" Block [00:56.68]He hanged himself at dawn [01:01.50]With a note stuck to the bunk head [01:06.38]Don't mess with me just take me home [01:10.60] [01:11.12]Come and lay help us lay [01:15.68]Young Billy down [01:18.55] [01:21.34]Luna was a Mexican the law called an alien [01:26.03]For coming across the border with a baby and a wife [01:32.02]Though the clothes upon his back were wet [01:34.72]Still he thought that he could get [01:36.95]Some money and things to start a life [01:41.50] [01:42.14]It hadn't been too very long [01:44.41]When it seemed like everything went wrong [01:47.05]They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home [01:52.89]This foreigner a brown-skin male [01:55.83]Thrown into a Texas jail [01:58.05]It left the wife and baby quite alone [02:04.64] [02:05.16]He eased the pain inside him [02:10.11]With a needle in his arm [02:14.25] [02:14.98]But the d**e just crucified him [02:19.84]He died to no one's great alarm [02:24.68]Come and lay help us lay [02:29.13]Young Luna down [02:31.58] [02:34.15]And we're aze the prisons [02:38.85]To the ground [02:41.89] [02:44.55]Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 [02:47.99]Who stood a chance to stay alive [02:50.20]And leave the joint and walk the streets again [02:54.09] [02:55.02]As the time he was to leave drew near [02:57.55]He suffered all the joy and fear [03:00.02]Of leaving 35 years in the pen [03:06.10] [03:07.20]And on the day of his release [03:09.71]He was approached by the police [03:12.06]Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side [03:18.40]The warden said "You won't remain here [03:20.86]But it seems a state retainer [03:23.21]Claims another 10 years of your life " [03:29.80]He stepped out in the Texas sunlight [03:35.27]The cops all stood around [03:40.05]Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards [03:44.93]Then threw himself down on the ground [03:49.13]They might as well just have laid [03:54.31]The old man down [03:57.72] [03:59.20]And we're gonna raze raze the prisons [04:03.17] [04:04.02]To the ground [04:07.21] [04:08.99]Help us raze raze the prisons [04:13.45]To the ground