G5 G5 Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter C5 G5 D5 Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name D5 Busted on a drunken charge D5 Driving someone else's car D5 G5 The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame G5 G5 In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale, how C5 G5 D5 Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded D5 Knowing they'd remain the boss D5 Knowing he would pay the cost D5 G5 They saw he was severely reprimanded E5 D5 In the blackest cell on A Block E5 D5 He hanged himself at dawn E5 D5 With a note stuck to the bunk head A5 D5 Don't mess with me, just take me home E5 D5 Come and lay, help us lay G5 young Billy down G5 G5 Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien C5 G5 D5 For coming across the border with a baby and a wife D5 Though the clothes upon his back were wet D5 Still he thought that he could get D5 G5 Some money and things to start a life G5 G5 It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong C5 G5 D5 They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home D5 This foreigner, a brown-skin male D5 Thrown inside a Texas jail D5 G5 It left the wife and baby quite alone E5 D5 He eased the pain inside him E5 D5 With a needle in his arm E5 D5 But the dope just crucified him A5 D5 He died to no one's great alarm E5 D5 Come and lay, help us lay G5 Young Luna down E5 D5 And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons G5 To the ground G5 G5 C5 Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive G5 D5 And leave the joint and walk the streets again D5 As the time he was to leave drew near D5 He suffered all the joy and fear D5 G5 Of leaving 35 years in the pen G5 G5 And on the day of his release he was approached by the police C5 G5 D5 Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side D5 The warden said "You won't remain here D5 But it seems a state retainer D5 G5 Claims another 10 years of your life." E5 D5 He stepped out in the Texas sunlight E5 D5 The cops all stood around E5 D5 Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards A5 D5 Then threw himself down on the ground E5 D5 They might as well just have laid G5 The old man down E5 D5 And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons G5 To the ground E5 D5 Help us raze, raze the prisons G5 To the ground
