[00:00.00]Hurricane (Live) - Bob Dylan
[00:35.65]Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
[00:39.10]Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
[00:42.47]She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
[00:45.85]Cries out "My God they killed them all "
[00:49.22]Here comes the story of the Hurricane
[00:52.47]The man the authorities came to blame
[00:55.79]For somethin' that he never done
[00:59.17]Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
[01:03.09]The champion of the world
[01:14.51]Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
[01:17.31]And another man named Bello movin' around mysteriously
[01:21.01]"I didn't do it " he says and he throws up his hands
[01:24.18]"I was only robbin' the register I hope you understand
[01:27.64]I saw them leavin' " he says and he stops
[01:31.01]"One of us had better call up the cops "
[01:34.31]And so Patty calls the cops
[01:37.70]And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
[01:41.34]In the hot New Jersey night
[01:52.72]Meanwhile far away in another part of town
[01:55.92]Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around
[01:59.34]Number one contender for the middleweight crown
[02:02.37]Had no idea what kinda sh*t was about to go down
[02:06.06]When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
[02:09.18]Just like the time before and the time before that
[02:12.37]In Paterson that's just the way things go
[02:15.50]If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
[02:19.68]'Less you wanna draw the heat
[02:31.31]Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops
[02:33.63]Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
[02:37.25]He said "I saw two men runnin' out they looked like
[02:39.50]Middleweights
[02:40.72]They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates "
[02:43.91]And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
[02:47.22]Cop said "Wait a minute boys this one's not dead"
[02:50.41]So they took him to the infirmary
[02:53.47]And though this man could hardly see
[02:55.91]They told him that he could identify the guilty men
[03:08.93]Fourn the mornin' and they haul Rubin in
[03:12.05]Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs
[03:15.18]The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
[03:18.18]Says "Wha'd you bring him in here for He ain't the guy "
[03:22.12]Yes here's the story of the Hurricane
[03:24.99]The man the authorities came to blame
[03:28.31]For somethin' that he never done
[03:31.77]Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
[03:35.43]The champion of the world
[03:46.69]Four months later the ghettos are in flame
[03:49.81]Rubin's in South America fightin' for his name
[03:52.93]While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
[03:56.06]And the cops are puttin' the screws to him lookin' for somebody
[03:58.61]To blame
[03:59.80]"Remember that murder that happened in a bar "
[04:02.93]"Remember you said you saw the getaway car "
[04:06.11]"You think you'd like to play ball with the law "
[04:09.24]"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that
[04:12.15]Night "
[04:12.81]"Don't forget that you are white "
[04:24.18]Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure "
[04:27.43]Cops said " A poor boy like you could use a break
[04:30.50]We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend
[04:32.85]Bello
[04:33.91]Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail be a nice fellow
[04:37.23]You'll be doin' society a favor
[04:40.55]That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver
[04:43.81]We want to put his a** in stir
[04:47.00]We want to pin this triple murder on him
[04:50.98]He ain't no Gentleman Jim "
[05:01.68]Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
[05:04.93]But he never did like to talk about it all that much
[05:07.87]It's my work he'd say and I do it for pay
[05:11.56]And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
[05:15.02]Up to some paradise
[05:18.06]Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
[05:21.37]And ride a horse along a trail
[05:24.69]But then they took him to the jailhouse
[05:27.87]Where they try to turn a man into a mouse
[05:39.45]All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
[05:42.55]The trial was a pig-circus he never had a chance
[05:45.80]The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
[05:49.05]To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
[05:52.69]And to the black folks he was just a crazy n****r
[05:55.69]No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
[05:59.06]And though they could not produce the gun
[06:01.94]The D A said he was the one who did the deed
[06:06.27]And the all-white jury agreed
[06:17.22]Rubin Carter was falsely tried
[06:20.22]The crime was murder "one " guess who testified
[06:23.47]Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
[06:26.66]And the newspapers they all went along for the ride
[06:30.19]How can the life of such a man
[06:33.33]Be in the palm of some fool's hand
[06:36.58]To see him obviously framed
[06:39.83]Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
[06:43.50]Where justice is a game
[06:54.25]Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
[06:57.54]Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
[07:00.73]While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
[07:03.91]An innocent man in a living hell
[07:07.43]Yes that's the story of the Hurricane
[07:10.68]But it won't be over till they clear his name
[07:13.68]And give him back the time he's done
[07:17.00]Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
[07:20.83]The champion of the world