Hurricane Chords by Bob Dylan

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_ _ _ [A] There's no shots rang out [F] in a bar room night
[Am] Enter Patty Valentine [F] from the upper [Am] hall
She sees a [F] bartender and a pool of [A] blood
[Am] Cries out, my [F] God, they killed them [G] [C] all
Here [F] comes the story of Eric [G] K
[C] The man the [F] authorities came to bait
[Dm] For something that he [C] never done
_ [Dm] Put in a prison [Am] cell
[Em] But one time [Am] he could have been
[F] The champion [C] of the world
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Three [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ bodies lying [F] dead as Patty sees
[Am] And another man named Bello [F] moving around _ [A] mysteriously
[Am] I didn't do it, he [F] says, and he throws up his hands
[Am] I was only right when the register, [F]
I hope you understand
[Gm] _ I saw [F] them leave and he says, and he stops
[C] One of us had better [F] call up the cops
[Dm] And so Patty [C] calls the cops
_ [Dm] _ Then they arrive [Am] on the scene
[Em] With their [Am] red lights flashing [F] in a hot New [C] Jersey night
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_ [Am] Meanwhile, _ _ [F] _ _ _
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[A] _ _ far away in [F] another part of [Am] town
Reuben Carter and a couple of [F] friends are driving around
[A] Number one contender [F] for the middleweight crown
[A] Had no idea what kind [F] of shit was about to go [Em] down
When a cop pulled him over [F] to the side of the road
[Em] _ Just like the time before and the time before [Am] that
[Dm] If, Patterson, that's just the way [C] things go
[Dm] If you're black, you [Am] might as well not [Em] show [A] up on the street
[F] Unless you're one of the [C] dry-legged
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [A] _ but Bello had a partner and [F] he had a wrath for the cops
[Am] Him and another next to Bradley were [F] just there prowling around
[Am] He said, I saw two men running [F] out who looked like [Am] middleweights
Jumped into a white car [F] without upstate plates
And this Patty Valentine just nodded her [C] head
Cops said, wait a minute boys, [F] this one's not dead
[Dm] So they took him to the [C] _ _ _ [Dm] infirmary
Hands on his [G] head, could [C] hardly [Em] see
He told them [Am] he could _
[F] identify the guilty [C] _ man
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_ _ [Am] _ More in the morning [F] in a horror van [G] here
[A] They took him to the hospital [F] and they brought him upstairs
[Am] The wounded man looked up [F] and there was one dying eye
[Am] Said, why'd you bring him in here, boy, [F] he ain't the guy
[G] Here's the story [F] of the hurricane
[C] _ [F] The man the authorities came to blame
[Dm] For something that he'd [C] never done
_ [Dm] Living in a prison [C] cell but one [Em] time
[Am] He could have been [F] the champion [C] of the _ [G] world
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Four months later, [F] the ghettos are in flames
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Rubens in South America [F] fighting for his [Am] name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still [F] in the robbery game
[A] And the cops are running the screws, [F] they're looking for somebody to [G] blame _
Remember that murder [F] that you had in a [C] bar
Remember [D] you said you [Fm] saw [C] that middleweight car
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Think it like a [C] playboy with the law
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Think it might have been that fighter [C] that you saw
[Em] _ Running at [A] night, [F] don't forget [C] that you are white
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_ [Am] _ _ Arthur Dexter Bradley [F] said, I'm really not sure
[Am] A cop said a poor boy like [F] you can use a break
[Am] We got you for the motel [F] job and you're talking to your friend [Am] Bello
You don't want to have to go back to [F] jail, be a nice fellow
_ [G] You'll be [F] doing society [C] a favor
_ [A#] That son of a bitch is [F#] brave and getting [Dm] braver
We want to put his [C] ass in stir
_ [Dm] _ We want to pin [C] this triple [Em] murder
On [Am] him, [F] he ain't [C] no gentleman, Jay
_ [G] _ _ Ruben _
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could take a man [F] out with just one punch
[Am] But he never did like to talk [F] about it all that much
[Em] [A] It's my work he'd say, [F] and I do it for pay
[A] And when it's over, [F] just as soon go on [C] my way
Up to [F] some _ paradise
Where the drought streams flow and the air is [D] nice
And ride a horse [C] along the trail
[Dm] But then they took him [C] to the _ [Em] jailhouse
[Am] Where they tried [F] to turn a man [C] into a man
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_ _ _ All of Ruben's cards [F] were marked in advance
The [A] trial was a pig circus, [F] he never had a chance
[Am] The judge made Ruben's witnesses [F]
drunkards from the slums
[A] To the white folks who watched, [F] he was a revolutionary [D] buzz
[Gm] And to the black [F] folks, he was just a crazy nigger
_ No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
[Dm] And no, they could not produce [C] the gun
_ [Dm] The DA said he [Am] was the one [Em] who [Am] did the deed
[F] And the whole Nigeria [C] _ _ _ [Em] agreed
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Ruben _ _ [F] _ _ _ [A] _
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_ Carter [F] was falsely tried
[Am] The crime was murder when, [F] guess who testified
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Bello and Bradley [F] and they both all did [Am] lie
And the newspapers, they [F] all went along for the [C] ride
How can the life [F] of such a man
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Be [N] in the palm of some [F] fool's [Dm] hand
To see him [C] obviously framed
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Couldn't help but make me [C] feel [Em] ashamed
To live [Am] in a land [F] where justice [C] is a _ _ [G] game
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_ _ And while the criminals and the colds and the tides
[A] Are free to drink martinis [F] and watch the sun rise
[Am] While Ruben sits like Buddha [F] in a ten-foot [Am] cell
Dead in a cement [F] in a living _ [G] hell
Yes, that's the [F] story of Lurie Cain
[A] But it [F] won't be over till they clear his name
[D] And give him back the time [C] he deserves
_ [Dm] Put in a prison cell, [C] but one [Em] time
[A] He could have been [F] the champion [C] of the world
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