Luyện nghe bài hát Paul Crump

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

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

But Paul Crump is today
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

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

But another warden along, Jack Johnson was his name
He knew how prison living could drive a man to
He had no need of in a solitary cell
When a word of trust help him just as well

Now Paul Crump is alive
He's a 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

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

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

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

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

Well, the electric chair was cheated, the convict pay
A new concept of justice was and raised that day
Now throughout this peaceful land are others set to die
What better time than now to why?

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