[ti:Joey]
[ar:Dylan ; The Dead]
[al:Dylan & The Dead]
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[00:02.65]Joey - Dylan & The Dead
[00:24.46]Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the year of who knows when
[00:29.07]
[00:31.19]Opened up his eyes to the tune of an accordion
[00:34.94]
[00:37.38]Always on the outside of whatever side there was
[00:41.18]
[00:42.62]When they asked him why it had to be that way, "Well," he answered, "just
[00:47.05]because."
[00:47.94]
[00:49.75]Larry was the oldest, Joey was next to last.
[00:54.25]
[00:55.93]They called Joe "Crazy," the baby they called "Kid Blast."
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[01:02.04]Some say they lived off gambling and runnin' numbers too.
[01:07.22]
[01:08.29]It always seemed they got caught between the mob and the men in blue.
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[01:14.80]Joey, Joey,
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[01:21.60]King of the streets, child of clay.
[01:26.34]
[01:27.59]Joey, Joey,
[01:32.83]
[01:34.46]What made them want to come and blow you away?
[01:39.44]
[01:53.55]There was talk they killed their rivals, but the truth was far from that
[01:59.03]
[02:00.79]No one ever knew for sure where they were really at.
[02:05.16]
[02:06.84]When they tried to strangle Larry, Joey almost hit the roof.
[02:12.02]
[02:13.26]He went out that night to seek revenge, thinkin' he was bulletproof.
[02:18.82]
[02:20.12]The war broke out at the break of dawn, it emptied out the streets
[02:25.69]
[02:27.42]Joey and his brothers suffered terrible defeats
[02:32.11]
[02:33.30]Till they ventured out behind the lines and took five prisoners.
[02:38.54]
[02:40.15]They stashed them away in a basement, called them amateurs.
[02:45.78]
[02:47.15]The hostages were tremblin' when they heard a man exclaim,
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[02:53.40]"Let's blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame."
[02:58.89]
[03:00.08]But Joey stepped up, he raised his hand, said, "We're not those kind of men.
[03:05.57]
[03:06.81]It's peace and quiet that we need to go back to work again."
[03:12.49]
[03:13.69]Joey, Joey,
[03:19.24]
[03:21.04]King of the streets, child of clay.
[03:25.72]
[03:27.04]Joey, Joey,
[03:32.65]
[03:34.46]What made them want to come and blow you away?
[03:39.45]
[03:53.81]The police department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith
[03:59.05]
[04:00.80]They got him on conspiracy, they were never sure who with.
[04:05.73]
[04:07.41]"What time is it?" said the judge to Joey when they met
[04:11.65]
[04:13.46]"Five to ten," said Joey. The judge says, "That's exactly what you get."
[04:18.71]
[04:20.82]He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich
[04:26.19]
[04:27.56]They threw him in the hole one time for tryin' to stop a strike.
[04:32.50]
[04:34.24]His closest friends were black men 'cause they seemed to understand
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[04:40.42]What it's like to be in society with a shackle on your hand.
[04:46.16]
[04:47.78]When they let him out in '71 he'd lost a little weight
[04:52.59]
[04:54.59]But he dressed like Jimmy Cagney and I swear he did look great.
[04:59.95]
[05:01.14]He tried to find the way back into the life he left behind
[05:06.44]
[05:07.32]To the boss he said, "I have returned and now I want what's mine."
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[05:14.24]Joey, Joey,
[05:19.91]
[05:21.42]King of the streets, child of clay.
[05:26.40]
[05:27.71]Joey, Joey,
[05:33.33]
[05:34.89]Why did they have to come and blow you away?
[05:39.97]
[05:54.81]It was true that in his later years he would not carry a gun
[05:59.18]
[06:01.11]"I'm around too many children," he'd say, "they should never know of one."
[06:05.55]
[06:08.05]Yet he walked right into the clubhouse of his lifelong deadly foe,
[06:13.16]
[06:14.34]Emptied out the register, said, "Tell 'em it was Crazy Joe."
[06:19.34]
[06:21.71]One day they blew him down in a clam bar in New York
[06:26.08]
[06:28.38]He could see it comin' through the door as he lifted up his fork.
[06:33.01]
[06:34.87]He pushed the table over to protect his family
[06:39.05]
[06:40.75]Then he staggered out into the streets of Little Italy.
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[06:47.74]Joey, Joey,
[06:53.29]
[06:54.66]King of the streets, child of clay.
[06:59.53]
[07:01.28]Joey, Joey,
[07:06.58]
[07:08.14]What made them want to come and blow you away?
[07:12.94]
[07:27.11]Sister Jacqueline and Carmela and mother Mary all did weep.
[07:32.11]
[07:34.73]I heard his best friend Frankie say, "He ain't dead, he's just asleep."
[07:38.97]
[07:40.90]Then I saw the old man's limousine head back towards the grave
[07:45.64]
[07:46.95]I guess he had to say one last goodbye to the son that he could not save.
[07:52.32]
[07:53.82]The sun turned cold over President Street and the town of Brooklyn mourned
[07:59.12]
[08:00.69]They said a mass in the old church near the house where he was born.
[08:05.62]
[08:07.12]And someday if God's in heaven overlookin' His preserve
[08:12.03]
[08:13.28]I know the men that shot him down will get what they deserve.
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[08:19.70]Joey, Joey,
[08:25.33]
[08:26.83]King of the streets, child of clay.
[08:31.51]
[08:33.39]Joey, Joey,
[08:38.62]
[08:40.11]What made them want to come and blow you away?