Hurricane Chords by Bob Dylan

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[F] _ _ _ _ [Am] Pistol shots ring out in [F] a bar room night.
[Am] Enter Betty Valentine [F] from the upper [Am] hall.
She sees a bartender [F] in a pool of [A] blood.
[Am] Cries out, my [F] God, they killed them [G] [C] all.
Here comes [F] the story of Eric [G] Cade.
[C] The man the authorities [F] came to bait.
[Dm] For something that he never [C] done.
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Put in a prison cell, [C] but one [Em] time he could [Am] have been
[F] the champion [C] of the world.
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[F] _ _ _ [Am] Three bodies lying dead [F] as Betty sees.
[Am] And another man named Bello moving [F] around mysteriously.
[A] _ [Am] _ Do what he says [F] and he throws up his hands.
[Am] I was only robbing the register, [F] I hope you understand.
[G] _ I saw them [C] leave and he says and he stops.
_ What of us that better [F] call up the [Dm] cops?
And so Betty [C] calls the cops.
_ [Dm] And they arrive [Am] on the scene [Em] with their red [Am] lights flashing
[F] in a hot New Jersey [C] night.
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[Am] _ _ Meanwhile, far away in [F] another part [Am] of town,
Reuben Carter and a couple of [F] friends are driving around.
[A] Number one contender, [F] but a middleweight [Am] crown.
Had no idea what kind of [F] shit was about to go [B] down
[Am] when a cop pulled him over [F] to the side of the [Em] road.
Just like the time [F] before and the time before [Am] that.
[Dm] In Paterson, that's just the [C] way things go.
_ [Dm] If you're black, you [Am] might as well not [Em] show up [A] on the street
[F] unless you want [C] to drive the _ [G] heat.
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] Him and other Dexter Brantley were just [F] there prowling around.
[Am] He said I saw two men running out [F] who looked like [Am] middleweights.
Jumped into a white car [F] without a fake face.
And this Betty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cops said wait a minute boys, this one's not dead.
[Dm] So they took him to the _ [C] infirmary.
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And though this [G] man could [C] hardly see,
[Em] he told them he [A] could [F] identify the [C] guilt he made.
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[F] _ _ [A] _ _ More in the morning [F] and they're all roving in.
[A] They took him to the hospital [F] and they brought him upstairs.
[Am] The wounded man looks up to [F] his wounded eye.
[Am] See why'd you bring him in [F] here for he ain't the [Em] guy.
Here's the story of [F] the hurricane.
_ _ [Cm] The man the authorities gave to [F] blame
[Dm] for something that he'd [C] never done.
_ [Dm] Living in a prison cell [C] but [Em] one time
he [Am] could have been the [F] champion [C] of the world.
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_ Moments later, [F] the ghettos are in flames.
[Am] Rubens in South America _ [F] fighting for his [Am] name.
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still [F] in the robbery gate.
[Am] And the cops up on the screws,
they're [F] looking for somebody to [C]
blaze.
Remember that [E] murder [F] that you had in a [C] bar.
Remember you said you saw the [F] getaway car.
[Dm] Drink it like a playboy [C] with the law. _
[Dm] Drink it might have been that fighter [C] that you saw
[Em] running [Am] that night.
[F] Don't forget that [C] you are white. _
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[F] _ _ _ _ [Am] Arthur Dexter Bradley [F] said I'm really not sure.
[Am] The cops said a poor boy like you [F] can use and break.
[Am] We got you for the motel [F] job and you're talking to your [Am] friend Bello.
You don't want to have to go back to [F] jail to be a nice fellow.
[C] _ You'll be [F] doing society a favor.
That son of a bitch is brave and getting braver.
[Dm] We want to put his [C] ass in stir.
_ [Dm] We want to pin [C] this terrible [Em] murder [Am] on him.
[F] He ain't [C] no gentleman, _ Jim.
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Reuben can take a man [F] out with just one punch.
[Am] But he never did like to talk about [F] it all that much.
[A] It's my work he'd [Am] say.
[Dm] I do it for pay.
[Am] And when it's over, [F] just as soon go on my [C] way
up to some [F] _ paradise.
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Where the crowd [Gbm] screams [F] flow and the air is nice.
[Dm] And ride a horse [C] along the trail. _ _
[Dm] But then they took him [C] to the _ [Em] jailhouse.
[Am] Where they tried to [F] turn a man [C] into a man. _ _
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All [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ of Reuben's cards [F] were marked in advance.
The [A] trial was a pig service.
[F] He never had a chance.
[Am] The judge made Reuben's witnesses [F] drunkards from the slums.
[Am] To the white folks who watched, [F] he was a revolutionary [C] bug.
[Bb] After the black [F] folks, he was just a crazy nigger.
_ No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
[Dm] And though they could not produce the [C] gun,
_ [Dm] the DA said he [C] was the one [Em] who [Am] did the deed.
[F] And the whole Nigeria [C] _ agreed.
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[Am] _ Reuben Carter [F] was falsely tried.
[Am] Crime was murder once.
[F] Guess who testified? _
[Am] _ Bello and Bradley [F] and they both falsely lied.
[Am] The newspapers, they [F] all went along for the [C] ride.
How can the [Ab] life [F] of such a man
[C] be [N] in the palm of some fool's [F]
[Dm] hand?
To see him [C] obviously framed _
[Dm] couldn't help but make me [C] feel [Em] ashamed
to live [Am] in a land [F] where justice [C] is a game. _
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[F] _ _ _ Now all the criminals and the cold-sanded types
[Am] are free to drink martinis [F] and watch the sun rise.
[Am] While Reuben sits like Buddha [F] in a ten-foot [Am] cell
dead in a cement [F] in a living hell.
[C] And [F] that's the story of the hurricane.
_ But it won't be over till they clear his name
[Dm] and give him back the kind [C] he's done.
_ [Dm] Put in a prison cell [C] but [Em] one time
he [A] could have been [F] the champion of [C] the world.
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