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

Revision as of 15:10, 2 February 2021

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Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released on the 1976 album Desire. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. It compiles acts of racism and profiling against Carter, which Dylan describes as leading to a false trial and conviction.[1]

Key Lyrics

All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance

The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance

The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums

To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum

And 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 deed

And the all-white jury agreed

Background

Controversy

Reference

  1. "Judge Drops Murder Charges In the Hurricane Carter Case". 27 February 1988. The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2021.