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Bob Dylan---Hurricane
#5494708 - 04/08/06 09:35 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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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 somethin? that he never done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a 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.
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.
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 could identify the guilty 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.
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 you saw runnin? that night? Don?t forget that you are white.
Arthur dexter bradley said, I?m really not sure. Cops said, a poor boy like you could use a break We got you for the motel job and we?re talkin? to your friend bello Now you don?t wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow. You?ll be doin? society a favor. That sonofabitch is brave and gettin? braver. We want to put his ass in stir We want to pin this triple murder on him He ain?t no gentleman jim.
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch But he never did like to talk about it all that much. It?s my work, he?d say, and I do it for pay And when it?s over I?d just as soon go on my way Up to some paradise Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice And ride a horse along a trail. But then they took him to the jailhouse Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
All of rubin?s cards were marked in advance The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance. The judge made rubin?s witnesses drunkards from the slums To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger. No one doubted that he pulled the trigger. And though they could not produce the gun, The d.a. said he was the one who did the deed And the all-white jury agreed.
Rubin carter was falsely tried. The crime was murder one, guess who testified? Bello and bradley and they both baldly lied And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride. How can the life of such a man Be in the palm of some fool?s hand? To see him obviously framed Couldn?t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land Where justice is a game.
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise While rubin sits like buddha in a ten-foot cell An innocent man in a living hell. That?s the story of the hurricane, But it won?t be over till they clear his name And give him back the time he?s done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been The champion of the world.
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I heard that song is about Abraham Lincoln?
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5494767 - 04/08/06 09:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I've not heard that. I dont really see the reference...
Elaborate?
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5494782 - 04/08/06 09:53 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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No, Lincoln wasn't a bartender.
Good song.
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That song rocks and this thread cracks me up.
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: blissedout]
#5494948 - 04/08/06 10:48 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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this song is about rubin carter aka "the hurricane" Denzel Washington played him in teh major motion picture "the hurricane" The guy was a boxer who was almost world champion before he got falsely accused by racist cops in teh 60's of some murder, he was in jail for a long time, but he's out now. Peace
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: blaze2]
#5494963 - 04/08/06 10:54 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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over-rated.
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: rockytop83]
#5494966 - 04/08/06 10:55 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What is?
The song? The movie? The boxer?
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all of the above
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: rockytop83]
#5494972 - 04/08/06 10:57 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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If your sig quote is your idea of a good song, I can see why you might think so....
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Eh, what can I say, Im a WSP fan
Not knocking Dylan though, just that particular song.
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: rockytop83]
#5494996 - 04/08/06 11:05 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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eh? Is that a widespread panic song?
I thought it was some rap stuff or something...
I take it back...
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Any live 75 version of Hurricane absolutely smokes. I HIGHLY recommend Bob Dylan Bootleg Series volume five.
And as a side note, Pusherman (from rockytop's sig) is a good song too. Widespread Panic does a good cover of it and they tastefully replace "nigger" with "shadow."
I'm that shadow in the alley.
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It's a Curtis Mayfield song.
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kosmic_charlie said: And as a side note, Pusherman (from rockytop's sig) is a good song too. Widespread Panic does a good cover of it and they tastefully replace "nigger" with "shadow."
I'm the shadow in the alley.
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: blaze2]
#5495043 - 04/08/06 11:21 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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blaze2 said: this song is about rubin carter aka "the hurricane" Denzel Washington played him in teh major motion picture "the hurricane" The guy was a boxer who was almost world champion before he got falsely accused by racist cops in teh 60's of some murder, he was in jail for a long time, but he's out now. Peace
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5495048 - 04/08/06 11:23 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Awesome tune, truely awesome.
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that made him get out of jail
he was falsely acused and Bob did it for him to get out
sorry that is very meaningful
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: shroomygirl]
#5495115 - 04/08/06 11:46 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Dylan's song didn't help him get out of prison. He was set free on a technicality because the judge was a dumbass. I think Ruben Carter is probably guilty. If you look at the evidence it all points to him and there's no proof whatsoever that anything was planted by police. And it's important to realize that the movie is based on the book that Ruben Carter himself wrote.
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can you give me a link cause I was allways influenced on one side and I wanna here the other side and never heard it
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: shroomygirl]
#5495127 - 04/08/06 11:49 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Is that you in your avatar?
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5495131 - 04/08/06 11:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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me yes it is
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Re: Bob Dylan---Hurricane [Re: shroomygirl]
#5495141 - 04/08/06 11:54 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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if any of you are aware of how dylan got ideas for his songs back in those days he hung out with a crew of peeps who were into current affairs 'n the such... there was an entire chapter about this song in one of his biographies.
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