Hurricane

Hurricane: Chords

Intro:
LAm  FA  LAm  FA

LAm                          FA
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
LAm                              FA
  Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
LAm                           FA
  She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
LAm                 FA
  Cries out "My God they killed them all!"

DO                          FA
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
SOL  DO                       FA
      The man the authorities came to blame
REm                           DO
  For something that he never done
REm
  Put in a prison cell
    DO  MIm             LAm
but one time he could-a been
    FA              DO    SOL
The champion of the world

Strumentale:
LAm  FA  LAm  FA

LAm                             FA
  Three bodies lyin’ there does Patty see
LAm
   And another man named Bello
        FA
movin’ around mysteriously
LAm
  “I didn’t do it,” he says
    FA
and he throws up his hands
LAm
  “I was only robbin’ the register
  FA
I hope you understand
DO                           FA
  I saw them leavin’,” he says, and he stops
SOL  DO                     FA
      “One of us had better call up the cops”
REm                      DO
  And so Patty calls the cops
REm                        DO
  And they arrive on the scene
           MIm        LAm
with their red lights flashin’
       FA             DO   SOL
In the hot New Jersey night

Strumentale:
LAm  FA  LAm  FA

LAm                       FA
  Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
LAm
  Rubin Carter and a couple
   FA
of friends are drivin’ around
LAm                            FA
  Number one contender for the middleweight crown
LAm                      FA
  Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
DO
  When a cop pulled him over
       FA
to the side of the road
SOL  DO
      Just like the time before
        FA
and the time before that
REm                           DO
  In Paterson that’s just the way things go
REm                            DO
  If you’re black you might as well
         MIm       LAm
not show up on the street
          FA             DO   SOL
’Less you wanna draw the heat

Strumentale:
LAm  FA  LAm  FA

LAm                      FA
  Four months later, the ghettos are in flame
LAm                         FA
  Rubin’s in South America, fightin’ for his name
LAm
  While Arthur Dexter Bradley’s
             FA
still in the robbery game
LAm
  And the cops are puttin’ the screws to him
FA
lookin’ for somebody to blame
DO                           FA
  “Remember that murder that happened in a bar?”
SOL  DO                              FA
      “Remember you said you saw the getaway car?”
REm                             DO
  “You think you’d like to play ball with the law?”
REm                           DO
  “Think it might-a been that fighter
             MIm          LAm
that you saw runnin’ that night?”
          FA               DO    SOL
“Don’t forget that you are white”

Strumentale:
LAm  FA  LAm  FA

LAm                              FA
Arthur Dexter Bradley said, “I’m really not sure”
LAm                                     FA
  Cops said, “A poor boy like you could use a break
LAm
  We got you for the motel job
          FA
and we’re talkin’ to your friend Bello
LAm
  Now you don’t wanta have to go back to jail
FA
be a nice fellow
DO                  FA
  You’ll be doin’ society a favor
SOL  DO                   FA
      That sonofabitch is brave and gettin’ braver
REm                         DO
  We want to put his ass in stir
REm                          DO MIm    LAm
  We want to pin this triple murder on him
   FA                 DO   SOL
He ain’t no Gentleman Jim”

Strumentale:
LAm  FA  LAm  FA

LAm                         FA
  All of Rubin’s cards were marked in advance
LAm
  The trial was a pig-circus
   FA
he never had a chance
LAm
  The judge made Rubin’s witnesses
FA
drunkards from the slums
LAm
  To the white folks who watched
             FA
he was a revolutionary bum
DO                                     FA
  And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
SOL  DO                      FA
      No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
REm                                     DO
  And though they could not produce the gun
REm                        DO  MIm         LAm
  The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
        FA              DO   SOL
And the all-white jury agreed

Strumentale:
LAm  FA  LAm  FA

LAm                              FA
  Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
LAm                              FA
  Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
LAm                                 FA
  While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
LAm                    FA
  An innocent man in a living hell
DO                        FA
  That’s the story of the Hurricane
SOL  DO                              FA
      But it won’t be over till they clear his name
REm                               DO
  And give him back the time he’s done
REm                         DO  MIm             LAm
  Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
    FA              DO    SOL
The champion of the world

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Hurricane è una canzone di protesta contro l'imprigionamento del pugile americano Rubin Carter, detto Hurricane, per motivi di puro razzismo, scritta da Bob Dylan assieme allo scrittore Jacques Levy. Il testo è ispirato all'autobiografia scritta dallo stesso pugile, e vuole mettere in luce la sua innocenza a dispetto delle tre accuse di omicidio che dovette subire. Hurricane è il brano più celebre dell'album Desire, il 17esimo album studio di Dylan, pubblicato nel 1976. E' stato eseguito live solo per promuoverne l'uscita: è proprio dal 1976 che il cantautore non esegue il brano ai suoi concerti.

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Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).