Chords for Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)
Tempo:
98.2 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,
name.
someone else's car,
fame.
there is some will tell the tale,
that he demanded.
the [Db] boss, knowing he would pay the [Dbm] cost,
Billy Rose was a low rider, [Cm] Billy Rose was a night fighter,
name.
someone else's car,
fame.
there is some will tell the tale,
that he demanded.
the [Db] boss, knowing he would pay the [Dbm] cost,
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Cm
Eb
Fm
Ab
Bbm
Cm
Eb
Fm
_ [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,
[Dbm] the local midnight sheriff's claim [Ab] to fame.
_ In an Arizona [G] jail, there is some will tell the tale,
[Bbm] how Billy fought [Db] the sergeant for [Cm] some milk that he demanded.
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] Knowing they'd remain the [Db] boss, knowing he would pay the [Dbm] cost,
they saw he was severely [Ab] _ reprimanded. _ _ _ _
[Fm] In the black of [Cm] a cell on A block, [Fm] he _ hanged [Cm] himself at dawn,
[Fm] with a note stuck to [Cm] 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 [Eb] and a 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,
didn't [Db] even have the [Cm] time to find [Eb] themselves a home.
[Bbm] When this foreigner, brown [Db] skinned male, thrown inside a Texas [Dbm] jail,
left the wife and baby [Ab] quite _ alone. _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] He eats the pain [Cm] inside him, with [Fm] a needle in [Cm] his _ arm,
but [Fm] the dope just [Cm] crucified him, [Bbm] and he died to no [Eb] one's great alarm.
[Fm] Come and lay, [Eb] help us lay, poor [Ab] Luna down. _ _ _ _
[Fm] And we'll raise, [Eb] raise the prisons _ [Ab] to the _ ground. _ _ _
_ Keele Watt 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 years [Ab] in the pen.
_ _ _ _ _ Then on the day of his release, [G] he was approached by the police,
[Bbm] who took him to the warden, [Cm] walking slowly [Eb] by his side. _
[Bbm] The warden said, you won't remain here,
but it seems the state [Dbm] retainer claims another 10 years of [Ab] your _ _ life.
_ He [Fm] stepped out in the [Cm] Texas sunlight, _ [Fm] and the cops all [Cm] stood _ around.
[Fm] Oh, _ Keele Watt [Cm] ran 50 yards, [Bbm] then threw himself down [Eb] on the ground.
They [Fm] might as _ well just [Eb] have laid that old [Ab] man down.
_ _ _ But we're [Fm] gonna _ raise, [Eb] raise the prisons to [Ab] the _ ground.
_ _ Help us [Fm] raise, raise [Eb] the prisons _ [F] to the [Ab] 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,
[Dbm] the local midnight sheriff's claim [Ab] to fame.
_ In an Arizona [G] jail, there is some will tell the tale,
[Bbm] how Billy fought [Db] the sergeant for [Cm] some milk that he demanded.
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] Knowing they'd remain the [Db] boss, knowing he would pay the [Dbm] cost,
they saw he was severely [Ab] _ reprimanded. _ _ _ _
[Fm] In the black of [Cm] a cell on A block, [Fm] he _ hanged [Cm] himself at dawn,
[Fm] with a note stuck to [Cm] 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 [Eb] and a 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,
didn't [Db] even have the [Cm] time to find [Eb] themselves a home.
[Bbm] When this foreigner, brown [Db] skinned male, thrown inside a Texas [Dbm] jail,
left the wife and baby [Ab] quite _ alone. _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] He eats the pain [Cm] inside him, with [Fm] a needle in [Cm] his _ arm,
but [Fm] the dope just [Cm] crucified him, [Bbm] and he died to no [Eb] one's great alarm.
[Fm] Come and lay, [Eb] help us lay, poor [Ab] Luna down. _ _ _ _
[Fm] And we'll raise, [Eb] raise the prisons _ [Ab] to the _ ground. _ _ _
_ Keele Watt 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 years [Ab] in the pen.
_ _ _ _ _ Then on the day of his release, [G] he was approached by the police,
[Bbm] who took him to the warden, [Cm] walking slowly [Eb] by his side. _
[Bbm] The warden said, you won't remain here,
but it seems the state [Dbm] retainer claims another 10 years of [Ab] your _ _ life.
_ He [Fm] stepped out in the [Cm] Texas sunlight, _ [Fm] and the cops all [Cm] stood _ around.
[Fm] Oh, _ Keele Watt [Cm] ran 50 yards, [Bbm] then threw himself down [Eb] on the ground.
They [Fm] might as _ well just [Eb] have laid that old [Ab] man down.
_ _ _ But we're [Fm] gonna _ raise, [Eb] raise the prisons to [Ab] the _ ground.
_ _ Help us [Fm] raise, raise [Eb] the prisons _ [F] to the [Ab] ground. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _