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whadu · Level 49: GameShark **Posts:** 37195 **Timestamp:** Mon Dec 18, 06 4:57 PM

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Clara Christy from the upper hall.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the whadu,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Three bodies lyin' there does Clara see
And another man named MadSkills, movin' around mysteriously.
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops."
And so Clara calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.

Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
whadu Jenkins and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that's just the way things go.
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Zach Flash had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
Him, turtleman, CursedBlessing and DKInsane were just out prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."
And Miss Clara Christy just nodded her head.
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
So they took Toadonpa to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the mornin' and they haul whadu in,
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
Toadonpa looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the whadu,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
whadu's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Zach Flash and MadSkill's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?"
"Don't forget that you are white."

Zach Flash said, "I'm really not sure."
Cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend MadSkills
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
You'll be doin' society a favor.
That sonofa bitch is brave and gettin' braver.
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim."

whadu could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

All of whadu's cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
The judge made whadu's witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy ******.
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
And though they could not produce the gun,
The BC Jury said he was the one who did the deed
And the BC Judge jury agreed.

whadu Jenkins was falsely tried.
The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
Zach Flash and MadSkills and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While whadu sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the whadu,
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
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