Bob Dylan - Hurricane [Accordi Completi]

Intro: Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa  (X2)

 Lam                                    Fa
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Lam                                          Fa
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
Lam                                           Fa
    She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Lam                                       Fa
     Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
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       Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
Do (Stop)                            Fa (Stop)              Fa
     The man the authorities came to blame
Rem                                           Do
     For somethin' that he never done.
Rem                                    Do  Mi                     Lam
      Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
           Fa                     Do           Sol  
The champion of the world.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

 Lam                                               Fa
       Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
           Lam                                             Fa
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
Lam                                                    Fa
      "I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
         Lam                                      Fa
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
Do (Stop)                        Fa (Stop)                       Fa
     I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
Do (Stop)                           Fa (Stop)                      Fa
      "One of us had better call up the cops."
Rem                                    Do
        And so Patty calls the cops
Rem                                     Do             Mi                 Lam
     And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
            Fa                     Do           Sol  
In the hot New Jersey night.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

  Lam                               Fa                        
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
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Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
 Lam                                             Fa
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
       Lam                           Fa    
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
Do (Stop)                                                   Fa (Stop)                       Fa
          When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Do (Stop)                                         Fa (Stop)                       Fa
      Just like the time before and the time before that.
    Rem                                       Do
In Paterson that's just the way things go.
    Rem                                       Do            Mi              Lam
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
           Fa                             Do           Sol  
'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

            Lam                                           Fa
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
             Lam                                                        Fa
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
       Lam                                                     Fa
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
         Lam                                        Fa
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."
Do (Stop)                                    Fa (Stop)                       Fa
     And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
  Do (Stop)                                      Fa (Stop)                       Fa
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
    Rem                                       Do
So they took him to the infirmary
Rem                                                   Do
    And though this man could hardly see
          Mi                           Lam         Fa                 Do        Sol
They told him that he could i - dentify the guilty men.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

Lam                                               Fa
     Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
 Lam                                                Fa
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
          Lam                                               Fa
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
              Lam                                            Fa
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Do (Stop)                                    Fa (Stop)                       Fa
       Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
Do (Stop)                             Fa (Stop)                       Fa
      The man the authorities came to blame
Rem                                            Do
      For somethin' that he never done.
Rem                                  Do   Mi                      Lam        
     Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
          Fa                      Do           Sol
The champion of the world.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

Lam                                     Fa
     Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
 Lam                                  Fa
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
     Lam                                                       Fa
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
              Lam                                                            Fa
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
Do (Stop)                                    Fa (Stop)                       Fa
     "Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
   Do (Stop)                                  Fa (Stop)                       Fa
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
         Rem                                                Do
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
   Rem                              
"Think it might-a been that fighter
                Do  Mi               Lam
That you saw runnin' that night?"
                 Fa                        Do          Sol
"Don't forget that you are white."

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

Lam                                              Fa
Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."
  Lam                                                    Fa
Cops said, "A poor boy like you Could use a break
Lam                                                         Fa
We got you for the motel job End we're talkin' to your friend Bello
  Lam                                                               Fa
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
Do (Stop)                   Fa (Stop)             Fa
      You'll be doin' society a favor.
Do (Stop)                                     Fa (Stop)                Fa
     That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
Rem                                        Do
     We want to put his ass in stir
Rem                                        Do     Mi       Lam
     We want to pin this triple mur - der on him
     Fa                            Do         Sol
He ain't no Gentleman Jim.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

  Lam                                             Fa
"Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
        Lam                                         Fa
But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
             Lam                          Fa
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
           Lam                              Fa
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Do (Stop)            Fa (Stop)            Fa
       Up to some paradise
Do (Stop)                                                   Fa (Stop)              Fa
      Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
Rem                                        Do
       And ride a horse along a trail.
Rem                                             Do  Mi
     But then they took him to the jail house
                     Lam               Fa               Do         Sol
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

Lam                                   Fa
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
         Lam                               Fa
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
       Lam                                           Fa
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
              Lam                                              Fa
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
Do (Stop)                                               Fa (Stop)            Fa
     And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.
Do (Stop)                                Fa (Stop)                  Fa
      No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
Rem                                                                Do
       And though they could not produce the gun,
Rem                                          Do    Mi              Lam
The D.A. said he was the one who who did the deed
             Fa                       Do          Sol
And the all-white jury agreed.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

Lam                           Fa
    Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
        Lam                                    Fa
The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
Lam                                         Fa
    Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
Lam                                       Fa
    And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
Do (Stop)                       Fa (Stop)            Fa
       How can the life of such a man
Do (Stop)                Fa (Stop)                   Fa
    Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
Rem                                  Do
      To see him obviously framed
Rem                                              Do      Mi           Lam
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
            Fa              Do          Sol
Where justice is a game.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa

        Lam                                 Fa
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
        Lam                                   Fa
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
            Lam                                  Fa
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
    Lam                        Fa
An innocent man in a living hell.
Do (Stop)                          Fa (Stop)            Fa
   That's the story of the Hurricane,
Do (Stop)                                    Fa (Stop)            Fa
    But it won't be over till they clear his name
Rem                                                 Do
     And give him back the time he's done.
Rem                                    Do   Mi                      Lam
       Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
          Fa                      Do            Sol
The champion of the world.

Stacco:  Lam   Fa   Lam   Fa  (X2)  Do  Fa   /   Do  Fa  /   Rem   Do  /   Rem   Do   Mi  Lam    Fa   Do  /   Sol
                                                                                                      (e chiude ripetendo lo stacco a sfumare)