{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":604046,"song":"Prison Trilogy Billy Rose","artist":"Joan Baez","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11572495-prison-trilogy-billy-rose-chords-by-joan-baez/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/604046?type=chord","rating":4.79586,"votes":76,"content":"Capo 1\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nBilly Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBusted on a drunken charge [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nDriving someone else's car [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe local midnight sheriff's claim to fame [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nIn an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale, how [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBilly fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nKnowing they'd remain the boss [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nKnowing he would pay the cost [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nThey saw he was severely reprimanded [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch] \r\nIn the blackest cell on A Block [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nHe hanged himself at dawn [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nWith a note stuck to the bunk head [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't mess with me, just take me home [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nCome and lay, help us lay [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nyoung Billy down [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nLuna was a Mexican the law calls an alien [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor coming across the border with a baby and a wife [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThough the clothes upon his back were wet [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nStill he thought that he could get [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSome money and things to start a life [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch] \r\nIt hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey didn't even have the time to find themselves a home [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThis foreigner, a brown-skin male [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nThrown inside a Texas jail [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] \r\nIt left the wife and baby quite alone [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch] \r\nHe eased the pain inside him [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nWith a needle in his arm [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nBut the dope just crucified him [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe died to no one's great alarm [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nCome and lay, help us lay [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYoung Luna down [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd we're gonna raze, raze the prisons [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo the ground [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nKilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd leave the joint and walk the streets again [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAs the time he was to leave drew near [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe suffered all the joy and fear [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOf leaving 35 years in the pen [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd on the day of his release he was approached by the police [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWho took him to the warden walking slowly by his side [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe warden said \"You won't remain here [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut it seems a state retainer [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nClaims another 10 years of your life.\" [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nHe stepped out in the Texas sunlight [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nThe cops all stood around [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Hm[/ch]\r\nOld Kilowatt ran 50 yards [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen threw himself down on the ground [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThey might as well just have laid [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe old man down [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nAnd we're gonna raze, raze the prisons [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo the ground [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHelp us raze, raze the prisons [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo the ground[/tab]\r\n\r\nRate it and post comments, THX","plain_text":"Capo 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRate it and post comments, THX","chords":["G","Hm","C","D","Am","Cm","Em","A","Bm"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Cm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,3,5,5,4,3]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}