美添音乐 Everyday music 《Hurricane》
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美添音乐
Everyday music
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——鲍勃迪伦《飓风》
歌名:《Hurricane》
歌者:Bob Dylan
词曲:Bob Dylan
流派:摇滚
歌曲评分:满分五星,歌词意境、旋律动听程度(包括歌手的演唱是否优美)、情感的丰富性、配乐水平、流行程度等五个方面判断。
学习难度:最容易的为1星,最难为5星。
歌词
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
Cries out "My God they killed them all "
Here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done
Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world
Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello movin' around mysteriously
"I didn't do it " he says and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbin' the register I hope you understand
I saw them leavin' " he says and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops "
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night
Meanwhile far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda sh*t was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that
In Paterson that's just the way things go
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said "I saw two men runnin' out they looked like
Middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates "
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
Cop said "Wait a minute boys this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men
Fourn the mornin' and they haul Rubin in
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says "Wha'd you bring him in here for He ain't the guy "
Yes here's the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done
Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world
Four months later the ghettos are in flame
Rubin's in South America fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him lookin' for somebody
To blame
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar "
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car "
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law "
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that
Night "
"Don't forget that you are white "
Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure "
Cops said " A poor boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend
Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail be a nice fellow
You'll be doin' society a favor
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver
We want to put his a** in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim "
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much
It's my work he'd say and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse
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 n****r
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
Rubin Carter was falsely tried
The crime was murder "one " guess who testified
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers they all went along for the ride
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell
Yes that's the story of the Hurricane
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done
Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world
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多添一点:
今天分享的这首《Hurricane》(飓风)来自鲍勃·迪伦,整首歌长八分32秒,讲述了黑人拳手飓风鲁宾·卡特被冤枉的故事。
鲁宾·卡特出生于贫寒家庭,幼年时为救友人,与当地的白人警察结怨。后来,他在监狱里面苦练拳击,因为出色的身手,名震拳坛,绰号“飓风”。此后,他参加了越战成为荣誉军官,并在某舞会偶然结识了后来的妻子。当生活进入美满轨道的时候,1966年,卡特被指控在酒吧杀害3个白人,在物证不足的情况下,被全由白人组成的陪审团判定谋杀罪,被判三个无期徒刑。
1974年9月,飓风鲁宾·卡特在狱中出版了自传《第十六回合》(The Sixteenth Round)。正如鲁本所说,文字的力量是巨大的,胜过拳头。这本书出版后,鲍勃迪伦前往监狱探望了卡特,他坚信卡特的无辜,之后专门创作了这首《Hurricane》声援卡特,歌词讲述的是迪伦认为的真相。
1985年,在入狱将近20年后,在许多人的友情帮助下,美国联邦法院对此案进行重新审判,取消之前的判决,将卡特释放。仇恨监禁了鲁宾·卡特二十年,最后让他获得自由的是爱。
这首歌也促成了电影《Hurricane》,从第一次听到鲍勃·迪伦的歌曲《Hurricane》开始,导演伯恩斯坦就非常看好卡特的故事,后来当他得知了故事的全部,认准这是拍成电影的绝佳素材。在得到电影拍摄权之后,伯恩斯坦请来编剧丹·戈登(Dan Gordon)来共同改编剧本。影片于1999年上映,丹泽尔·华盛顿饰演飓风卡特,演技令人惊叹。
而鲁宾·卡特本人,赋予这段二十年的冤狱经历新的意义。从1993年至2005年,鲁宾·卡特担任了冤狱辩护协会常务董事,致力于帮助冤狱受害者。
2014年4月20日,鲁宾·卡特于加拿大多伦多的家中去世,享年76岁。
电影介绍地址:https://movie.douban.com/subject/1294497/
电影原声地址:https://www.xiami.com/album/1694185982