作词 : Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan
作曲 : Bob Dylan/Jacques Levy
[00:17]Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
[00:20]Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
[00:24]She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
[00:28]Cries out, ’My God, they killed them all!
[00:31]Here comes the story of the Hurricane“
[00:35]The man the authorities came to blame
[00:38]For something that he never done
[00:42]Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
[00:46]The champion of the world
[00:58]Three bodies lying there does Patty see
[01:02]And another man named Bello, moving around mysteriously
[01:05]‘I didn’t do it,’ he says, and he throws up his hands“
[01:08]“‘I was only robbing the register, I hope you understand“
[01:12]I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops
[01:16]‘One of us had better call up the cops’“
[01:19]And so Patty calls the cops
[01:23]And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashing
[01:27]In the hot New Jersey night
[01:38]Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
[01:42]Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving around
[01:44]Number one contender for the middleweight crown , Had no idea what kinda **** was about to go down, When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
[01:56]Just like the time before and the time before that
[02:00]In Peterson that’s just the way things go
[02:03]If you’re black you might as well not show up on the street
[02:07]Less you wanna draw the heat
[02:19]Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops
[02:23]Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling around
[02:27]He said, ‘I saw two men running out, they looked like middleweights
[02:29]They jumped into a car with out-of-state plates’
[02:33]And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
[02:37]Cop said, ‘wait a minute, boys, this one’s not dead’
[02:40]So they took him to the infirmary
[02:44]And though this man could hardly see
[02:46]They told him that he could identify the guilty men
[03:06]Four in the morning and they haul Rubin in
[03:10]Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs
[03:13]The wounded man looks up through his one dying eye
[03:16]Says, ‘wha’d you bring him in here for? He ain’t the guys!’
[03:20]Yes, here’s the story of the hurricane
[03:24]The man the authorities came to blame
[03:28]For something that he never done
[03:31]Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
[03:34]The champion of the world
[03:46]Four mouths later, the ghettos are in flame
[03:50]Rubin’s in South America, fighting for his name
[03:53]While Arthur Dexter Bradley’s still in the robbery game
[03:57]And the cops are putting the screws to him, looking for somebody to blame
[04:01]‘Remember that murder that happened in a bar?’“
[04:04]‘Remember you said you saw the getaway car?’“
[04:07]‘you think you’d like to play ball with the law?’“
[04:10]‘Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw running that night?’”
[04:15]‘Don’t forget that you are white’“
[04:26]Arthur Dexter Bradley said, “I’m really not sure”
[04:29]Cops said, ‘A poor boy like you could use a break
[04:33]We got you for the motel job and we’re talking to your friend Bello
[04:36]Now you don’t wanna have go back to jail, be a nice fellow, You’ll be doing society a favor
[04:43]That *********** is brave and getting braver
[04:47]We want to put his ass in stir
[04:50]We want to pin this triple murder on him
[04:55]He ain’t no Gentleman Jim
[05:06]Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
[05:09]But he never did like to talk about it all that much
[05:12]It’s my work, he’d say, and I do it for pay
[05:16]And when it’s over I’d just as soon go on my way
[05:19]Up to some paradise, Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
[05:27]And ride a horse along a trail, But then they took him to the jailhouse
[05:33]Where they try to turn a man into a mouse
[05:46]All of rubin’s card were marked in advance
[05:49]The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance
[05:52]The judge made rubin’s witnesses drunkards from the slurms
[05:55]To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
[06:00]And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
[06:03]No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
[06:06]The D.A. said he was the one who did the dead, And though they could not produce the gun
[06:14]And the all-white jury agreed
[06:33]Rubin Carter was falsely tried
[06:36]The crime was murder ‘one.’ Guess who testified?
[06:39]Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
[06:42]And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride
[06:46]How can the life of such a man
[06:50]Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?
[06:54]To see him obviously framed
[06:56]Could’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land, Where justice is a game
[07:18]Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
[07:22]Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
[07:26]While rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
[07:29]An innocent man in a living hell
[07:33]That’s the story of the hurricane
[07:36]But it won’t be over till they clear his name
[07:39]And give him back the time he’s done
[07:43]Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
[07:47]The champion of the world
[07:47]世界冠军
[07:54]鲁宾·卡特（1937-2014），美国中量级拳王，1966年蒙冤入狱。迪伦此曲发行于1975年，1985年鲁宾科特沉冤得雪，重获自由。
[08:04]歌词和翻译来自广西师大出版社2017年出版的《鲍勃·迪伦诗歌集》