Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing
In a land that's known as freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help that we can bring
We can change the world —
Re-arrange the world
It's dying — to get better.......................
Bob Dylan wrote a song about Hurricane Carter; the last few stanzas run :
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's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help 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 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.
Bob Dylan
"Hurricane"
You'd be shocked . My son has every classic rock song he can find on his IPOD. I think he's up to 3800 songs. CSN&Y was the group that initially got him hooked. I've been reliving the 60's and 70's for the past two years musically speaking. The classic rock stations are very popular here in North Jersey. Who would have thunk it?
The Rap Crap (as I call it) lyrics didn't resonate with 90% of the generation. They seem to find the old stuff new again!