Joan Baez - Prison Trilogy Billy Rose - аккорды

[ Предположительная тональность: G ]


Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
Joan Baez

 G                          G/B
Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter
 Am              C                Bm               D
Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name
 Am
Busted on a drunken charge
 C
Driving someone else's car
     Cm                                G
The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame

G                   G/B
In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale, how
 Am               C                Bm              D
Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded
Am
Knowing they'd remain the boss
C
Knowing he would pay the cost
     Cm                       G
They saw he was severely reprimanded

       Em               Bm
In the blackest cell on A Block
   Em                Bm
He hanged himself at dawn
       Em                Bm
With a note stuck to the bunk head
       Am                         D
Don't mess with me, just take me home

          Em           D
Come and lay, help us lay
             G
young Billy down

 G                     G/B
Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien

     Am                C            Bm         D
For coming across the border with a baby and a wife
 Am
Though the clothes upon his back were wet
 C
Still he thought that he could get
      Cm                          G
Some money and things to start a life

    G                                 G/B
It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong
     Am           C                Bm                D
They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home
      Am
This foreigner, a brown-skin male
 C
Thrown inside a Texas jail
   Cm                            G
It left the wife and baby quite alone

    Em               Bm
He eased the pain inside him
        Em            Bm
With a needle in his arm
         Em             Bm
But the dope just crucified him
    Am                      D
He died to no one's great alarm

         Em            D
Come and lay, help us lay
            G
Young Luna down
                 Em              D
And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons
         G
To the ground

 G                           G/B                       Am
Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive
      C                  Bm                D
And leave the joint and walk the streets again

Am
As the time he was to leave drew near
    C
He suffered all the joy and fear
    Cm                      G
Of leaving 35 years in the pen

    G                            G/B
And on the day of his release he was approached by the police
     Am              C              Bm            D
Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side
     Am
The warden said "You won't remain here
C
But it seems a state retainer
Cm                               G
Claims another 10 years of your life."

     Em                      Bm
He stepped out in the Texas sunlight
    Em              Bm
The cops all stood around
     Em          Bm
Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards
      Am                         D
Then threw himself down on the ground

               Em             D
They might as well just have laid
             G
The old man down
                 Em             D
And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons
         G
To the ground
         Em             D
Help us raze, raze the prisons
        G
To the ground