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HURRICANE by Bob Dylan Stanza 1: Number the lines in the correct order  Here comes the story of the Hurricane  Pistol shots ring out in the bar room night  Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been  Enter Patty Valentine from the upper-hall  The champion of the world  She sees the bartender in a pool of blood  Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"  For somethin' that he never done  The man the authorities came to blame   Stanza 2: Tick the correct answer Three bodies lyin'layin'there does Patty see And another man named Bello, movin' around suspiciouslymysteriously "I didn't do it," he says, and he putsthrowsup his hands "I was only droppin'robbin'the register, I hope you understand I saw them leavingliving" he says, and he stops "One of us had better call up the cupscops" And so Patty calls the cops And they arrive on the scenespotwith their red lights shinin'flashin' In the hot New Jersey nightlight   Stanza 3: Unscramble the words Meanwhile, far  (yawa) in another part of town Rubin Carter and a  (puolec) of friends are drivin' around Number one contender for the middleweight  (norcw) Had no (aeid) what kinda shit was about to go down When a cop pulled him over to the side of the (drao) Just like the (meti) before and the time before that In Paterson that's just the way (gihstn) go If you're (kbacl) you might as well not show up on the street 'Less you wanta draw the heat   Stanza 4: Choose the correct answer Alfred Bello had a pantherpartnerfatherfriend and he had a rap for the cops Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prancingcrawlingprowlingrolling around He said, "I saw two men runningroaminggoinggetting out, they looked like middleweights They jammedjumpedjaggedrushed into a white car with out-of-state plates" And Miss Patty Valentine just movedshooknoddedturned her head Cop said, "Wait a minute boys, this one's not dadheadhurtdead" So they took him to the infirmary And though this man could hardly speaksayseasee They told him that he could rectifyidentifysatisfyfalsify the guilty men   Stanza 5: Match the two halves Four in the mornin'                   a) of the Hurricane Take him to the hospital                  b) came to blame    The wounded man                c) and they haul Rubin in    Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for?         d) that he never done  Yes, here's the story           e) and they bring him upstairs The man the authorities          f) but one time he coulda been For somethin'           g) looks up through his one dyin' eye Put in a prison cell,          h) He ain't the guy!" The champion of the world   Stanza 6: Fill in the missing letters or words Four   later, the ghettoes are in ame Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his ame While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery ame And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to ame "Remember that   that happened in a bar?" "Remember you said you saw the getaway ?" "You think you'd like to play  with the law?" "Think it mighta been that fighter that you saw runnin' that  ? "Don't forget that you are "   Stanza 7: Tick the correct lines or write the extra word in the box in the wrong ones Arhtur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure"  Cops said, "A poor man like you could use a break  We got you for the motel job and now we're talkin' to your friend Bello  Now you don't wanta have to go back again to jail, be a nice fellow  You'll be doin' society a great favor  That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' much braver  We want to put his ass in stir   We want to pin up this triple murder on him   He ain't no Gentleman brother Jim"    Stanza 8: Fill in the following words for which synonyms are given pay   paradise   punch    jail    mouse    trail    talk    streams Rubin could take a man out with just one (fist) But he never did like to (speak)  about it all that much It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for (money) And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way Up to some (heaven) Where the trout (rivers)  flow and the air is nice And ride a horse along a (path) But then they took him to the (prison)  house Where they try to turn a man into a (rodent)   Stanza 9: Tick the correct spelling All of Rubin's cards were marked in advanseadvance The trailtrial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkardsdrankards from the slums To the white folks who watched he was a revulotionaryrevolutionary bum And to the black folks he was just a crazy niggerniger No one doubteddouted that he pulled the trigger And thaughthough they could not produce the gun The D.A. said he was the one who deeddid the deeddid And the all-white jury agreed   Stanza 10 : Choose True or False Rubin Carter was falsely tried TrueFalse The crime was murder "two", guess who testified?TrueFalse Bello and Bradley and they both cowardly lied TrueFalse And the magazines, they all went along for the ride TrueFalse How can the life of such a man TrueFalse Be in the fingers of some fool's hand? TrueFalse To see him obviously betrayed TrueFalse Couldn't help but make me feel proud to live in a land TrueFalse Where justice is a game  TrueFalse   Stanza 11: Fill in the missing words with the help of the pictures Now all the criminals in their    and their    Are free to drink martinis and watch the   rise While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot An innocent man in a living   That's the story of the Hurricane But it won't be over till they clear his And give him back the   he's done Put in aprison cell, but one time he coulda been The   of the world