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26 May 99 - 10:22 AM (#81824) Subject: Folk Song 'Billy Rose'? PLEASE!!! From: nineinchnailed@hotmail.com Hi, my names aditya ...... 5 yrs ago we did this song billy rose in choir in school..... i wanna learn how to play it now ..... even the lyrics will do , but if u have the tab (guitar) or know someone who ndoes please mail it to me at the above adress or at stupaedophile@antisocial.com thanks a lot.... |
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27 May 99 - 09:48 AM (#82110) Subject: RE: Folk Song 'Billy Rose'? PLEASE!!! From: Dale Rose Never heard of it, nor could I find anything about it. The problem is that it's also a person's name, highly complicating a search. Now you might wonder why I even bothered to reply at all, but your request was the very bottom one on the page, so this brings it to the top again, where someone who knows might see it! |
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27 May 99 - 10:38 AM (#82125) Subject: RE: Folk Song 'Billy Rose'? PLEASE!!! From: Pete peterson the song isn't BABY rose by any chance? I know that onw. No help on BILLY rose, sorry PETE |
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27 May 99 - 10:49 AM (#82128) Subject: RE: Folk Song 'Billy Rose'? PLEASE!!! From: Wolfgang could it be this song?:
PRISON TRILOGY
Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter if so, you find more at http://baez.woz.org/Lyrics/pristrilogy.html. Wolfgang |
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27 May 99 - 12:34 PM (#82157) Subject: Lyr Add: PRISON TRILOGY (Joan Baez) From: Roger in Baltimore PRISON TRILOGY (Words and Music by Joan Baez) 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 into 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 poor Luna down And we'll 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 Then 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 that old man down And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons to the ground Help us raze, raze the prisons to the ground © 1971, 1972 Chandos Music (ASCAP) I thought we might post it here in hopes it will enter the DT. Joan's website is mighty nice, but you never know when these damn links will die. Enjoy the music!
Roger in Baltimore Note from Joe Offer: the lyrics above are a good transcription of this Joan Baez recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0sXNmKhGKo |
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01 Sep 00 - 12:54 AM (#289022) Subject: RE: Folk Song 'Billy Rose'? PLEASE!!! From: GUEST,pracht@gcnet.com Can someone help me find the chords to the Prison Trilogy? Thanks! Email them to me at pracht@gcnet.com |
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07 Nov 04 - 12:56 PM (#1319649) Subject: RE: Folk Song 'Billy Rose'? PLEASE!!! From: GUEST,guest, brokenheros@hotmail.com if anybody does have chords or tabs for this song could you email me as well, i've been searching for them for a while brokenheros@hotmail.com |
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13 Dec 04 - 12:54 PM (#1355748) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune/Chords Req: Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez) From: GUEST,Alice Johnston Also looking for the chords if someone could send them to alicide59@hotmail.com it would be greatly appreciated Thanks |
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14 Dec 04 - 07:44 AM (#1356450) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune/Chords Req: Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez From: GUEST,Champange Carole's Secret Santa I looked and looked and could not find ANY tabs or chords to this song...and when and if I do, I'll email you all. I spent three freakin' hours on this one day. I amassed a big document with about 110 OTHER songs...chords and tabs...but not THIS one. Sorry. Not like I didn't give it the old college try. Any gentle mudcatter generous enough to at least annote the chords over the lyrics for us? It ain't as if we haven't looked on our own. We ain't lazy. It isn't in any in print Baez Guitar books neither. At least none that I could find and I looked at about 12 titles plus some out of print ones. Have we sufferd enough to deserve deliverence? Please help us. |
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16 Dec 04 - 08:23 AM (#1358558) Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: PRISON TRILOGY (Joan Baez) From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore Prison Trilogy (Words and Music by Joan Baez) G Bm Billy Rose was a low rider, Billy Rose was a night fighter C G Bm D Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name Am Busted on a drunken charge C Driving someone else's car G Bm D The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame G Bm In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how C G Bm D Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded Am Knowing they'd remain the boss C Knowing he would pay the cost G D They saw he was severely reprimanded Em D In the blackest cell on "A" Block Em D He hanged himself at dawn Em D With a note stuck to the bunk head C D Don't mess with me, just take me home G D G Come and lay, help us lay young Billy down I have not heard Joan doing this song for over a decade. From my memory of the tune, the above chords fit fairly well. Roger in Baltimore |
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16 Dec 04 - 04:34 PM (#1359084) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune/Chords Req: Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez) From: Blissfully Ignorant Oh wow, thanks...i've been looking for it too. :0) |
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17 Dec 04 - 11:07 PM (#1360176) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune/Chords Req: Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez From: GUEST,God Bless Roger in Baltimore Thank you SO much Roger! You have no idea how badly abused some kids can get when asking on various forums for the tabs or lyrics to a folk song. Some kid started asking for this one over a year ago on various Yahoo groups and we found him the lyrics Ok but then he meekly came back and said..gee howsabout the chords and tabs and he got SLAMMED up side the figurative head by people who claimed they were so easy to find and that any lazy idiot could find them blah blah blah.. So, just to see if that was true..I looked. and looked..and looked. Nada. Not a ring-ding thing. Lots of pages that showed up on searches that had it listed as having the Tabs but when you went there..it was just the lyrics. Then I saw a similar thread here and tried again. Nothing. I was surprised not to find it in my own chord notes from Highschool but it wasn't there. I also couldn't really recall the tune all that well. I'll now go back and see if any of those email addys are still valid. Over the year, I accumualted a list of some 30 people that wanted this. Roger, you are a fine man. May your SS bring you lots of pressies for being such a kind Mudcatter and for not telling us all we'd not done enough research to deserve an answer! I ran through it briefly and I'd have to say they are probably right if I could remember the darned song. You'd think this one would have stuck better given that it was so popular when it was first recorded. Well, we are all in your debt Roger from Baltimore. Have I fawned all over you enough? If not, let us know and I'll post another gushing bit of gratitude. |
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21 Dec 04 - 09:54 AM (#1362456) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune/Chords Req: Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez) From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore Aw, geez, thanks! I'm blushing. Actually, this site has given me so much joy and pleasure, so much help with songs, and so many good friends, that whatever I give back doesn't seem like enough. As I played this again, I think the D's after the Em's should probably be a Bm's. Sounds better. Merry Christmas to all! Roger in Baltimore |
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21 Dec 04 - 10:58 AM (#1362483) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune/Chords Req: Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez From: Bassic Found this from a 2001 thread. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Subject: RE: Chords req 'Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)' From: IvanB - PM Date: 30 Jun 01 - 01:13 PM Well, thank God for the capo! I had that flash of insight and put one on the first fret, intending to move it up until I established a key for the song. As luck would have it, it sounds in the key of Ab on my CD, which meant that playing in G with the capo on the first fret, I was able to play along with the song. Much to my surprise, the chord progression is very straightforward: G Billy Rose was a low rider; Em Billy Rose was a night fighter C D7 Billy Rose knew trouble like the sound of his own name C D7 Busted on a drunken charge C D7 Drivin' someone else's car C D7 G The local midnight sheriff's claim to fame G Em In an Arizona jail there are some who tell the tale how C D7 Billy fought the sergeant for some milk that he demanded. C D7 Knowing they'd remain the boss C D7 Knowing he would pay the cost C D7 G They saw he was severely reprimanded Em D7 Em D7 In the blackest cell on "A" Block he hanged himself at dawn Em D7 With a note stuck to the bunk head C D7 Don't mess with me, just take me home. G D7 G Come and lay, help us lay young Billy down. I'm sure I've missed some passing chords in the process, but this progression scans pretty well. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Hope it helps |
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10 Mar 07 - 08:45 PM (#1993082) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune/Chords Req: Prison Trilogy (Joan Baez) From: Dave'sWife Just yesterday I was buying some Joan Baez tunes on iTunes and I was pleasantly surprised to see Billy Rose on the list of available songs. I clicked on it, listened and it was the correct song so I bought it. If anyone happens upon this thread again looking to find the song, just go over to iTunes and search on Joan Baez. i believe it comes up as Prison Trilogy/Billy Rose |