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Ukulele Chords HURRICANE By BOB DYLAN

Ukulele Chords HURRICANE By BOB DYLAN

  VERSION 1  

Intro :
   Dm    Bb    Dm    Bb  

Verse 1 :
Dm                           Bb
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Dm                             Bb
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
    Dm                      Bb
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
Dm                     Bb
Cries out 'My God they killed them all!'

F                           Bb
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
C F                        Bb
   The man the authorities came to blame
Gm                           F
For something that he never done
Gm                        F   Am
Put in a prison cell but one time
              Dm       Bb               F      C  
He could have been the champion of the world

Instrumental :
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Verse 2 :
Dm                           Bb
Three bodies lyin’ there does Patty see
Dm                           Bb
And another man named Bello, movin’ around mysteriously
Dm                           Bb
“I didn’t do it,” he says, and he throws up his hands
Dm                           Bb
“I was only robbin’ the register, I hope you understand
F                           Bb
I saw them leavin’,” he says, and he stops
C F                        Bb
“One of us had better call up the cops”
Gm                           F
And so Patty calls the cops
Gm                        F   Am
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin’
              Dm       Bb               F      C
In the hot New Jersey night

Instrumental :
   Dm    Bb    Dm    Bb  

Verse 3 :
Dm                           Bb
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Dm                           Bb
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin’ around
Dm                           Bb
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Dm                           Bb
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
F                           Bb
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
C F                        Bb
Just like the time before and the time before that
Gm                           F
In Paterson that’s just the way things go
Gm                        F   Am
If you’re black you might as well not show up on the street
              Dm       Bb               F      C
’Less you wanna draw the heat

Instrumental :
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Verse 4 :
Dm                           Bb
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops
Dm                           Bb
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin’ around
Dm                           Bb
He said, “I saw two men runnin’ out, they looked like middleweights
Dm                           Bb
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates”
F                           Bb
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
C F                        Bb
Cop said, “Wait a minute, boys, this one’s not dead”
Gm                           F
So they took him to the infirmary
Gm                        F   Am
And though this man could hardly see
              Dm       Bb               F      C
They told him that he could identify the guilty men

Instrumental :
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Verse 5 :
Dm                           Bb
Four in the mornin’ and they haul Rubin in
Dm                           Bb
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs
Dm                           Bb
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin’ eye
Dm                           Bb
Says, “Wha’d you bring him in here for? He ain’t the guy!”
F                           Bb
Yes, here’s the story of the Hurricane
C F                        Bb
The man the authorities came to blame
Gm                           F
For somethin’ that he never done
Gm                        F   Am
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
              Dm       Bb               F      C
The champion of the world

Instrumental :
   Dm    Bb    Dm    Bb  

Verse 6 :
Dm                           Bb
Four months later, the ghettos are in flame
Dm                           Bb
Rubin’s in South America, fightin’ for his name
Dm                           Bb
While Arthur Dexter Bradley’s still in the robbery game
Dm                           Bb
And the cops are puttin’ the screws to him, lookin’ for somebody to blame
F                           Bb
“Remember that murder that happened in a bar?”
C F                        Bb
“Remember you said you saw the getaway car?”
Gm                           F
“You think you’d like to play ball with the law?”
Gm                        F   Am
“Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin’ that night?”
              Dm       Bb               F      C
“Don’t forget that you are white”

Instrumental :
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Verse 7 :
Dm                           Bb
Arthur Dexter Bradley said, “I’m really not sure”
Dm                           Bb
Cops said, “A poor boy like you could use a break
Dm                           Bb
We got you for the motel job and we’re talkin’ to your friend Bello
Dm                           Bb
Now you don’t wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow
F                           Bb
You’ll be doin’ society a favor
C F                        Bb
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin’ braver
Gm                           F
We want to put his ass in stir
Gm                        F   Am
We want to pin this triple murder on him
              Dm       Bb               F      C
He ain’t no Gentleman Jim”

Instrumental :
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Verse 8 :
Dm                           Bb
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
Dm                           Bb
But he never did like to talk about it all that much
Dm                           Bb
It’s my work, he’d say, and I do it for pay
Dm                           Bb
And when it’s over I’d just as soon go on my way
F                           Bb
Up to some paradise
C F                        Bb
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
Gm                           F
And ride a horse along a trail
Gm                        F   Am
But then they took him to the jailhouse
              Dm       Bb               F      C
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse

Instrumental :
   Dm    Bb    Dm    Bb  

Verse 9 :
Dm                           Bb
All of Rubin’s cards were marked in advance
Dm                           Bb
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance
Dm                           Bb
The judge made Rubin’s witnesses drunkards from the slums
Dm                           Bb
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
F                           Bb
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
C F                        Bb
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
Gm                           F
And though they could not produce the gun
Gm                        F   Am
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
              Dm       Bb               F      C
And the all-white jury agreed

Instrumental :
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Verse 10 :
Dm                           Bb
Rubin Carter was falsely tried
Dm                           Bb
The crime was murder “one,” guess who testified?
Dm                           Bb
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
Dm                           Bb
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride
F                           Bb
How can the life of such a man
C F                        Bb
Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?
Gm                           F
To see him obviously framed
Gm                        F   Am
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
              Dm       Bb               F      C
Where justice is a game

Instrumental :
   Dm    Bb    Dm    Bb  

Verse 11 :
Dm                           Bb
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Dm                           Bb
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
Dm                           Bb
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
Dm                           Bb
An innocent man in a living hell
F                           Bb
That’s the story of the Hurricane
C F                        Bb
But it won’t be over till they clear his name
Gm                           F
And give him back the time he’s done
Gm                        F   Am
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
              Dm       Bb               F      C
The champion of the world
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