Hurricane / Stell dir vüür Songtext / Lyric

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 somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world. Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them leavin'," 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 flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night. Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was 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's just the way things go.
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Stell dir vüür, du wöörs em Wald un hätts en Axt bei.
Jetz stell dir vüür, ding Frau wöör och dobei.
Stell dir vüür, ne Kääl köhm, jöhv ihr Schokolädche,
dä tröök e Mezz eruss un jing ihr an de Bein.
Jo, wat däätste dann? Däätste maache, Mann?
Saach mer, wehrste dich? Oder leetzte dann ding Frau em Stech?

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Eeztens nöhm ich mir ens flöck dat Schokolädche,
zweitens däät ich waade, bess dä fädisch wöör,
drittens künnt ich en dä Zick paar Christbäum schlaare,
viertens köhm am Eng do optisch jet bei römm,
fünftens däät ich dann, ens ein rauche Mann denn:
Sextens suwiesu wöör ich se quitt un dann wöhr ich fruh.

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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 ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

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