Chords for Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
Tempo:
98.25 bpm
Chords used:
Cm
Eb
Fm
Ab
Bbm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Ab]
Billy Rose was a low rider, [Cm] Billy Rose was a night fighter, [Bbm] Billy Rose knew [Db] trouble like
name.
someone else's car, the [Dbm] local midnight sheriff's claim [Ab] to fame.
[Cm] there is some will tell the tale, [Bbm] how Billy fought [Db] the sergeant for
milk that he demanded.
remain the [Db] boss, knowing he would pay the cost, they [Dbm] saw he was severely
[Fm] In the black, a [Cm] cell on a block, [Fm] he hanged [Cm] himself at dawn, [Fm] with a note stuck [Cm] to the
Billy Rose was a low rider, [Cm] Billy Rose was a night fighter, [Bbm] Billy Rose knew [Db] trouble like
name.
someone else's car, the [Dbm] local midnight sheriff's claim [Ab] to fame.
[Cm] there is some will tell the tale, [Bbm] how Billy fought [Db] the sergeant for
milk that he demanded.
remain the [Db] boss, knowing he would pay the cost, they [Dbm] saw he was severely
[Fm] In the black, a [Cm] cell on a block, [Fm] he hanged [Cm] himself at dawn, [Fm] with a note stuck [Cm] to the
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Billy Rose was a low rider, [Cm] Billy Rose was a night fighter, [Bbm] Billy Rose knew [Db] trouble like
the [Cm] sound of his [Eb] own name.
_ [Bbm] Busted on a drunken charge, driving someone else's car, the [Dbm] local midnight sheriff's claim [Ab] to fame.
_ In an Arizona jail, [Cm] there is some will tell the tale, [Bbm] how Billy fought [Db] the sergeant for
[Cm] some milk that he demanded.
[Eb] _ _ [Bbm] Knowing they'd remain the [Db] boss, knowing he would pay the cost, they [Dbm] saw he was severely
[Ab] _ _ reprimanded. _ _ _
[Fm] In the black, a [Cm] cell on a block, [Fm] he _ hanged [Cm] himself at dawn, [Fm] with a note stuck [Cm] to the _
bunkhead.
[F] Don't mess with me, just [Eb] take me home.
[Fm] Come and lay, [Eb] help us lay, young [Ab] Billy down. _ _ _ _ _
_ Luna was a Mexican, [Cm] the law calls an alien, [Bbm] for coming [Db] across the border [Cm] with a baby and a [Eb] wife.
[Bbm] While the clothes upon his back were [Db] wet, still he thought that he could get some [Dbm] money
and things to [Ab] start a life.
It hadn't been too very long, when it [Cm] seemed like everything went [Bbm] wrong.
[Db] Didn't even have the time to [Cm] find [Eb] themselves a _ home.
[Bbm] When this foreigner, brown-skinned [Db] male, thrown inside a Texas [Dbm] jail, left the wife and baby [Ab] quite alone. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] He eats the pain [Cm] inside him, [Fm] with a _ needle in [Cm] his arm.
_ [Fm] But the dope just [Cm] crucified him, and [Bbm] he died to no [Eb] one's great alarm.
[Fm] Come and lay, [Eb] help us lay, [Ab] poor Luna down. _ _ _ _
[Fm] And we'll raise, [Eb] raise the prisons [Ab] to the ground. _ _ _ _
_ _ Kilowatt was an aging [Cm] con of 65, who stood a [Bb] chance to stay [Db] alive and leave the [Cm] joint
and walk the [Eb] streets again.
_ [Bbm] At the time he was to leave [Db] Juneer, he suffered all the joy and [Dbm] fear of leaving, 35 [Ab] years
in the pen.
_ _ _ _ _ Then on the day of his release, [G] he was approached by the [Bbm] police, who took him [Db] to the warden
[Cm] walking slowly [Eb] by his side.
[Bbm] The warden said, you won't [Db] remain here, but it seems the state [Dbm] retainer claims another
ten years [Ab] of your life.
_ _ _ He [Fm] stepped out in the [Cm] Texas sunlight, _ [Fm] and the cops all [Cm] stood around.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ Oh, Kilowatt [Cm] ran 50 yards, [Bbm] then threw himself down [Eb] on the ground.
They [Fm] might as well [Eb] just have laid that old [Ab] man down.
_ _ _ But we're [Fm] gonna _ raise, [Eb] raise the prisons to [Ab] the _ ground.
_ _ Help [Fm] us raise, raise [Eb] the prisons to [Ab] the ground. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Billy Rose was a low rider, [Cm] Billy Rose was a night fighter, [Bbm] Billy Rose knew [Db] trouble like
the [Cm] sound of his [Eb] own name.
_ [Bbm] Busted on a drunken charge, driving someone else's car, the [Dbm] local midnight sheriff's claim [Ab] to fame.
_ In an Arizona jail, [Cm] there is some will tell the tale, [Bbm] how Billy fought [Db] the sergeant for
[Cm] some milk that he demanded.
[Eb] _ _ [Bbm] Knowing they'd remain the [Db] boss, knowing he would pay the cost, they [Dbm] saw he was severely
[Ab] _ _ reprimanded. _ _ _
[Fm] In the black, a [Cm] cell on a block, [Fm] he _ hanged [Cm] himself at dawn, [Fm] with a note stuck [Cm] to the _
bunkhead.
[F] Don't mess with me, just [Eb] take me home.
[Fm] Come and lay, [Eb] help us lay, young [Ab] Billy down. _ _ _ _ _
_ Luna was a Mexican, [Cm] the law calls an alien, [Bbm] for coming [Db] across the border [Cm] with a baby and a [Eb] wife.
[Bbm] While the clothes upon his back were [Db] wet, still he thought that he could get some [Dbm] money
and things to [Ab] start a life.
It hadn't been too very long, when it [Cm] seemed like everything went [Bbm] wrong.
[Db] Didn't even have the time to [Cm] find [Eb] themselves a _ home.
[Bbm] When this foreigner, brown-skinned [Db] male, thrown inside a Texas [Dbm] jail, left the wife and baby [Ab] quite alone. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] He eats the pain [Cm] inside him, [Fm] with a _ needle in [Cm] his arm.
_ [Fm] But the dope just [Cm] crucified him, and [Bbm] he died to no [Eb] one's great alarm.
[Fm] Come and lay, [Eb] help us lay, [Ab] poor Luna down. _ _ _ _
[Fm] And we'll raise, [Eb] raise the prisons [Ab] to the ground. _ _ _ _
_ _ Kilowatt was an aging [Cm] con of 65, who stood a [Bb] chance to stay [Db] alive and leave the [Cm] joint
and walk the [Eb] streets again.
_ [Bbm] At the time he was to leave [Db] Juneer, he suffered all the joy and [Dbm] fear of leaving, 35 [Ab] years
in the pen.
_ _ _ _ _ Then on the day of his release, [G] he was approached by the [Bbm] police, who took him [Db] to the warden
[Cm] walking slowly [Eb] by his side.
[Bbm] The warden said, you won't [Db] remain here, but it seems the state [Dbm] retainer claims another
ten years [Ab] of your life.
_ _ _ He [Fm] stepped out in the [Cm] Texas sunlight, _ [Fm] and the cops all [Cm] stood around.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ Oh, Kilowatt [Cm] ran 50 yards, [Bbm] then threw himself down [Eb] on the ground.
They [Fm] might as well [Eb] just have laid that old [Ab] man down.
_ _ _ But we're [Fm] gonna _ raise, [Eb] raise the prisons to [Ab] the _ ground.
_ _ Help [Fm] us raise, raise [Eb] the prisons to [Ab] the ground. _
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