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Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter

Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name

Busted on a drunken charge

Driving someone else's car

 The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame

 In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale, how

Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded

Knowing they'd remain the boss

Knowing he would pay the cost

 They saw he was severely reprimanded

 In the blackest cell on A Block

 He hanged himself at dawn

 With a note stuck to the bunk head

 Don't mess with me, just take me home

 Come and lay, help us lay

 young Billy down

Luna was a Mexican the law calls an alien

 For coming across the border with a baby and a wife

 Though the clothes upon his back were wet

Still he thought that he could get

 Some money and things to start a life

 It hadn't been too very long when it seemed like everything went wrong

 They didn't even have the time to find themselves a home

 This foreigner, a brown-skin male

Thrown inside a Texas jail

 It left the wife and baby quite alone

 He eased the pain inside him

 With a needle in his arm

 But the dope just crucified him

 He died to no one's great alarm

 Come and lay, help us lay

 Young Luna down

 And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons

 To the ground

Kilowatt was an aging con of 65 who stood a chance to stay alive

 And leave the joint and walk the streets again

 As the time he was to leave drew near

 He suffered all the joy and fear

 Of leaving 35 years in the pen

 And on the day of his release he was approached by the police

 Who took him to the warden walking slowly by his side

 The warden said "You won't remain here

But it seems a state retainer

Claims another 10 years of your life."

 He stepped out in the Texas sunlight

 The cops all stood around

 Old Kilowatt ran 50 yards

 Then threw himself down on the ground

 They might as well just have laid

 The old man down

 And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons

 To the ground

 Help us raze, raze the prisons

 To the ground

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