Hurricane - Bob Dylan
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 couldabeen The champion of the world Three bodies lying there does Patty see And another man named Bello moving around mysteriously I didn'tdo it he says and he throws up his hands I was only robbing the register I hope you understand I saw them leaving 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 flashing In the hot New Jersey night Meanwhile far away in another part of town Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving around Number one contender for the middleweight crown Had no idea what kinda s**twas 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'sjust the way things go If you'reblack you might as well not show up on the street Unless you want to draw the heat Alfred Bello he had a rap for the cops Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling around He said I saw two men running out they looked like middleweights They jumped into a white car with outofstateplates And Miss Patty Valentine just Valentine just nodded her head Cop said Wait a minute boys this boys this one'snot 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 morning and they haul Rubin in Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs The wounded man looks up through his one dying eye Says why did you bring him in here for He is not the guy Yes here'sthe 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 couldabeen The champion of the world Four months later the ghettos are in flame Rubin'sin South America fighting for his name While Arthur Dexter Bradley'sstill in the robbery game And the cops are putting the screws to him looking for somebody to blame Remember that murder that happened in a bar Remember you said you saw the getaway car You think you'dlike to play ball with the law Think it mightabeen that fighter that you saw running that night Don'tforget that you are white Arthur Dexter Bradley said I'mreally not sure Cops said a poor boy like you could use a break We got you for the motel job and we'retalking to your friend Bello Now you don'twant to have to go back to jail be a nice fellow You'llbe doing society a favor That sonofab***his brave and getting braver We want to put his a*sin stir We want to pin this triple murder on him He ain'tno 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'smy work he'dsay and I do it for pay And when it'sover I'djust 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'scards were marked in advance The trial was a pigcircushe never had a chance The judge made Rubin'switnesses 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 allwhitejury 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'shand To see him obviously framed Couldn'thelp 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 tenfootcell An innocent man in a living hell That'sthe story of the Hurricane But it won'tbe over till they clear his name And give him back the time he'sdone Put in a prison cell but one time he couldabeen The champion of the world Guitar score
Hurricane Artist: Bob Dylan
Capo: 0
Key: C
Difficulty：
Tempo: 150
Time Signature: 4/4
Hot: 99
Creation time: 2023-03-03 Hurricane Guitar Tab, arranged and transcribed by Chordance, complete with staff notation and numbered musical notation. The song was composed by and performed by Bob Dylan. This guitar tab is in the key of C and is a Beginner version, suitable for players at the Beginner level. A must-learn piece for guitar enthusiasts. Strum the guitar, open the piano, and experience the mood conveyed by Bob Dylan at that time～
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