Intro:

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Pistol shots ring out in the

barroom night

Enter Patty Valentine from the

upper hall

She

sees the bartender in a

pool of blood

Cries out "My God

they killed them all!"

Here comes 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 could have

been the

champion of the

world

,

Three bodies lyin? there

does Patty see

And another man named Bello,

movin? around mysteriously

?I didn?t do it,? he says,

and he throws up his hands

?I was only robbin? the,

register, I hope you understand

I saw them leavin? he

says, and he stops

?One of us had better call

up the cops,

And so Patty calls the cops

And they arrive on the,

scene

with their red lights flashin?

In the hot

New Jersey

night

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Meanwhile, far away in

another part of town,

Rubin Carter and a couple of

friends are drivin? around,

Number one contender for the

middleweight crown,

Had no idea what kinda shit

was about to go down,

When a cop pulled him over

to the side of the road,

Just like the time before

and the time before that,

In Paterson that?s just the

way things go,

If you?re black you might

as

well not show up on the street, ?Less you

wanna draw

the heat

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Alfred Bello had a partner,

and he had a rap for the cops

Him and Arthur Dexter,

Bradley were just out prowlin? around

He said, ?I saw two men

runnin? 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, c

ould identify th

e guilt

y men

Four in the mornin? and they

haul Rubin in

Take him to the hospital, and

they bring him upstairs

The wounded man looks up,

through his one dyin? eye

Says, ?Wha?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 somethin? that he never

done

Put in a prison cell, but

one

time he could-a been

The champion

of the

world

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Four months later the

ghettos are in flame

Rubin?s in South America,

fightin? for his name

While Arthur Dexter,

Bradley?s still in the robbery game

And the cops are puttin?

the

screws to him lookin for somebody to blame

Remember that murder that

happened in a bar?

?Remember you said, you saw

the getaway car??

?You think you?d like to,

play ball with the law??

Think it might-a been

that

fighter that u saw runnin that night

Don?t forget

that you

are white?

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