Luyện nghe bài hát Paul Crump

In the of Illinois 'bout nine years ago
A cold killer, he went against the law
He killed a guard when his robbery did fail
And caught him and they threw him into jail

He lay there in his cell, locked up with his
Not many men of him and less cared for his fate
And he knew no peace of when his trial was comin' by
The judge said, "You are guilty you die"

But Paul is alive today
He's a in a cell, he's got somethin' to say
man has got something to give
And if a man can change, a man should live

They sent him to County Jail, a jail known far and wide
Where pity was a stranger and brave men cry
They locked him in the death row to count the days
To the day they a knockin' at his door

But another warden came along, Johnson was his name
He knew how prison living could a man to shame
He had no need of pistols in a cell
When a word of trust would help him as well

Now Crump is alive today
He's a sittin' in a cell, he's got to say
Every man has got something to
And if a man can change, then a man should

Between the and the convict, a friendship slowly grew
And one learned from the that a man can live anew
Then the warden called the convict, "You must leave the devil's
The has come for you to be a man"

the convict found religion and he started him to learn
He wrote himself a novel called 'Burn, Killer,
And as his dying day grew near, to the he did cry
"You must the switch and I must die"

But Paul Crump is alive
a sittin' in a cell, he's got somethin' to say
Every man has got something to
And if a man can change, a man should live

It was up to Governor Kerner to him from the grave
Was rehabilitation a to be saved?
The hour was comin' closer, the word was around
A new and better answer must be

Well, the electric chair was cheated, the didn't pay
A new concept of justice was born and raised day
Now throughout this land there are others set to die
better time than now to question why?

But Crump is alive today
He's a in a cell, he's got somethin' to say
man has got something to give
And if a man can change, a man should live