Dylan BobDesireHurricaneby Bob Dylan and Jacques LevyPistol shots ring out in the barroom nightEnter 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 blameFor somethin' that he never done.Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a beenThe champion of the world.Three bodies lyin' there does Patty seeAnd another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.I didn't do it, he says, and he throws up his handsI was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.I saw them leavin', he says, and he stopsOne of us had better call up the cops.And so Patty calls the copsAnd they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'In the hot New Jersey night.Meanwhile, far away in another part of townRubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.Number one contender for the middleweight crownHad no idea what kinda shit was about to go downWhen a cop pulled him over to the side of the roadJust 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.Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' aroundHe said, I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweightsThey jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates.And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.Cop said, Wait a minute, boys, this one's not deadSo they took him to the infirmaryAnd though this man could hardly seeThey told him that he could identify the guilty men.Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eyeSays, Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,The man the authorities came to blameFor somethin' that he never done.Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a beenThe champion of the world.Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his nameWhile Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery gameAnd the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.Remember that murder that happened in a bar?Remember you said you saw the getaway car?You think you'd like to play ball with the law?Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?Don't forget that you are white.Arthur Dexter Bradley said, I'm really not sure.Cops said, A poor boy like you could use a breakWe got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend BelloNow you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.You'll be doin' society a favor.That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.We want to put his ass in stirWe want to pin this triple murder on himHe ain't no Gentleman Jim.Rubin could take a man out with just one punchBut he never did like to talk about it all that much.It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for payAnd when it's over I'd just as soon go on my wayUp to some paradiseWhere the trout streams flow and the air is niceAnd ride a horse along a trail.But then they took him to the jailhouseWhere they try to turn a man into a mouse.All of Rubin's cards were marked in advanceThe trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slumsTo the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bumAnd to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.And though they could not produce the gun,The D.A. said he was the one who did the deedAnd the all-white jury agreed.Rubin Carter was falsely tried.The crime was murder one, guess who testified?Bello and Bradley and they both baldly liedAnd the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.How can the life of such a manBe in the palm of some fool's hand?To see him obviously framedCouldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a landWhere justice is a game.Now all the criminals in their coats and their tiesAre free to drink martinis and watch the sun riseWhile Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cellAn innocent man in a living hell.That's the story of the Hurricane,But it won't be over till they clear his nameAnd give him back the time he's done.Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a beenThe champion of the world.
Lyrics by Dylan Bob
10,000 Men 2 x 2 4th Time Around A Fool Such as I A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall A Satisfied Mind Abandoned Love Absolutely Sweet Marie Ain't A-Gonna Grieve Ain't No Man Righteous (No Not One) Ain't No More Cane Alberta #1 Alberta #2 All Along the Watchtower All I Really Want to Do All Over You All the Tired Horses Angelina Apple Suckling Tree Are You Ready? Arthur McBride As I Went Out One Morning Baby, I'm in the Mood for You Baby, Let Me Follow You Down Baby, Stop Crying Ballad For A Friend Ballad in Plain D Ballad of a Thin Man Ballad Of Donald White Ballad of Hollis Brown Belle Isle Bessie Smith Big Yellow Taxi Billy (Main Title Theme) Billy 1 Billy 4 Billy 7 Black Crow Blues Black Diamond Bay Blackjack Davey Blind Willie McTell Blood in My Eyes Blowin' in the Wind Blue Moon Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Bob Dylan's Blues Bob Dylan's Dream Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag Boots of Spanish Leather Born in Time Broke Down Engine Brownsville Girl Buckets of Rain Bunkhouse Theme Bye and Bye California Call Letter Blues Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? Can't Help Falling in Love Can't Wait Canadee-i-o Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law) Caribbean Wind Caribbean Wind Caribbean Wind Cat's in the Well Catfish Changing of the Guards Chimes of Freedom Clean-Cut Kid Clothes Line Cold Irons Bound Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long) Copper Kettle Corrina, Corrina Country Pie Covenant Woman Cry A While Dark Eyes Day of the Locusts Days of 49 Dead Man, Dead Man Dear Landlord Death is Not the End Delia Denise Desolation Row Diamond Joe Dignity Dirge Dirt Road Blues Disease of Conceit Do Right to Me Baby Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Don't Ya Tell Henry Down Along the Cove Down in the Flood Down the Highway Drifter's Escape Driftin' Too Far from Shore Dusty Old Fairgrounds Early Mornin' Rain Emotionally Yours Endless Highway Eternal Circle Every Grain of Sand Everything is Broken Farewell Farewell Angelina Father of Night Final Theme Fixin' to Die Floater (Too Much To Ask) Foot of Pride Forever Young Frankie & Albert Freight Train Blues Froggie Went a Courtin' From a Buick 6 Gates of Eden George Jackson Get Your Rocks Off! Girl of the North Country Go 'Way Little Boy God Knows Goin' to Acapulco Going, Going, Gone Golden Loom Gonna Change My Way of Thinking Gospel Plow Got My Mind Made Up Gotta Serve Somebody Gotta Travel On Guess I'm Doin' Fine Gypsy Lou Had a Dream About You, Baby Handy Dandy Hard Times Hard Times in New York Town Hazel He Was a Friend of Mine Heart of Mine Heartland Hero Blues High Water (For Charlie Patton) Highlands Highway 51 Blues Highway 61 Revisited Honest With Me Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance House Carpenter House of the Rising Sun I Am a Lonesome Hobo I and I I Believe in You I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have M I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know I Pity the Poor Immigrant I Shall Be Free I Shall Be Free No.10 I Shall Be Released I Threw It All Away I Wanna Be Your Lover I Want You I Was Young When I Left Home I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day I'd Have You Any Time I'll Be Your Baby Tonight I'll Keep It with Mine I'll Remember You Idiot Wind If Dogs Run Free If I Don't Be There By Morning If Not for You If You Gotta Go, Go Now If You See Her, Say Hello In My Time of Dyin' In Search of Little Sadie In the Garden In the Summertime Is Your Love in Vain? Isis It Ain't Me, Babe It Hurts Me Too It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry It's All Over Now, Baby Blue It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Jack-A-Roe Jet Pilot Jim Jones Joey John Brown John Wesley Harding Jokerman Just Like a Woman Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Katie's Been Gone Kingsport Town Knockin' on Heaven's Door Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie Lay Down Your Weary Tune Lay, Lady, Lay Legionnaire's Disease Lenny Bruce Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Let It Be Me Let Me Die in My Footsteps Let's Keep It Between Us Let's Stick Together License to Kill Like a Rolling Stone Lily of the West Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts Little Maggie Little Sadie Living the Blues Lo and Behold! Lone Pilgrim Lonesome Day Blues Long Ago, Far Away Long Time Gone Long-Distance Operator Lord Protect My Child Love Henry Love Is Just A Four-letter Word Love Minus Zero / No Limit Love Sick Maggie's Farm Make You Feel My Love Mama, You Been on My Mind Man Gave Names to All the Animals Man in the Long Black Coat Man of Constant Sorrow Man of Peace Man on the Street Mary Ann Masters of War Maybe Someday Meet Me in the Morning Million Dollar Bash Million Miles Minstrel Boy Mississippi Mixed Up Confusion Money Blues Moonlight Moonshiner Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine Most of the Time Motorpsycho Nightmare Mozambique Mr. Bojangles Mr. Tambourine Man My Back Pages Nashville Skyline Rag Need a Woman Neighborhood Bully Never Gonna Be the Same Again Never Say Goodbye New Morning New Pony Night After Night Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street) No More Auction Block No Time to Think Nobody 'Cept You North Country Blues Not Dark Yet Nothing was Delivered Obviously Five Believers Odds and Ends Oh, Sister On a Night Like This On the Road Again One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) One More Night One More Weekend One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) One Too Many Mornings Only a Hobo Only a Pawn in Their Game Open the Door, Homer Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast) Outlaw Blues Oxford Town Paths of Victory Peggy Day Percy's Song Playboys and Playgirls Please, Mrs. Henry Pledging My Time Po' Boy Political World Poor Boy Blues Positively 4th Street Precious Angel Precious Memories Pressing On Pretty Peggy-O Property of Jesus Queen Jane Approximately Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) Quit Your Low Down Ways Ragged & Dirty Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Rambling, Gambling Willie Rank Strangers to Me Restless Farewell Ring Them Bells Rita May River Theme Romance in Durango Ruben Remus Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands Sally Sue Brown Santa Fe Sara Sarah Jane Saved Saving Grace See That My Grave is Kept Clean Seeing the Real You at Last Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) Series of Dreams Seven Curses Seven Days She Belongs to Me She's Your Lover Now Shelter from the Storm Shenandoah Shooting Star Shot of Love Sign Language Sign On The Cross Sign on the Window Silent Weekend Silvio Simple Twist of Fate Sittin' on Top of the World Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence Slow Train Solid Rock Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart Something There is About You Something's Burning, Baby Song to Woody Spanish Harlem Incident Spanish is the Loving Tongue Stack A Lee Stage Fright Standing In The Doorway Standing On The Highway Steel Bars Step It Up And Go Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Agai Subterranean Homesick Blues Sugar Baby Summer Days Suze (The Cough Song) Sweetheart Like You T.V. Talkin' Song Take a Message to Mary Take Me as I Am Talkin Hava Negeilah Blues Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues Talkin' World War III Blues Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues Talking New York Tangled Up in Blue Tears of Rage Tell Me Tell Me That It Isn't True Tell Me, Momma Temporary Like Achilles The Ballad of Ira Hayes The Boxer The Death Of Emmett Till The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll The Man in Me The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down The Shape I'm In The Times They Are A-Changin' The Wandering Kind The Weight The Wicked Messenger They Killed Him Things Have Changed This Wheel's on Fire Three Angels Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Til I Fell In Love With You Time Passes Slowly Tiny Montgomery To Be Alone with You To Ramona Tombstone Blues Tomorrow is a Long Time Tomorrow Night Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You Too Much of Nothing Tough Mama Train A-Travelin' Trouble Trouble In Mind True Love Tends to Forget Trust Yourself Tryin' To Get To Heaven Turkey Chase Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum Two Soldiers Ugliest Girl in the World Unbelievable Under the Red Sky Under Your Spell Union Sundown Up on Cripple Creek Up to Me Visions of Johanna Walk Out In The Rain Walkin' Down the Line Wallflower Walls of Red Wing Wanted Man Watching the River Flow Watered Down Love We Better Talk This Over Wedding Song Went to See the Gypsy What Can I Do For You? What Good Am I? What Was It You Wanted? Whatcha Gonna Do When Did You Leave Heaven? When He Returns When He Returns When He Returns When I Paint My Masterpiece When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky When the Ship Comes In When You Awake When You Gonna Wake Up? Where Are You Tonight? Where Teardrops Fall Who Killed Davey Moore? Wiggle Wiggle Wigwam Winterlude With God on Our Side Woogie Boogie World Gone Wrong Worried Blues Yazoo Street Scandal Ye Shall Be Changed Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread You Ain't Goin' Nowhere You Angel You You Changed My Life You Wanna Ramble You're a Big Girl Now You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go You're Gonna Quit Me You're No Good