joan baez-prison trilogy (billy rose)

[hhooman2005]

I can't stop listening to this song.

[Raanel]

Joan, your voice and songs will be forever immortal <3

[laboheme26]

Raze the prisons to the ground....

[oskarwylde1]

"...This too I know—and wise it were

If each could know the same—

That every prison that men build

Is built with bricks of shame,

And bound with bars lest Christ should see

How men their brothers maim...."

[jkohler2]

I worked in a California county jail for a year. The ballad of Billy Rose

rings clearly and truly

[DeathEgg666]

@jkohler2

seriously?

it actually happend or is just like everyone humming the final countdown?

[thecousinbellic]

gets the goose pimples going

[peteyweestro]

Awesome and sad song for sure

[faithken8]

dont mess with me just take me home

[KingBecause]

THANK YOU

[AkeelaoftheDemon]

And we're gonna raze, raze the prisons

To the ground

Help us raze, raze the prisons

To the ground

....

i light on a fire in my mind.

thinking, one more time, about friends who are now in prison...

knowing them, and so knowing that our idea of the liberty is bigger than any cage.

still waiting the moment in which we meet again (to raze, raze the prisons to the ground, and open cage after cage)

[northfourty]

This gives me the chillls every time I hear it,so sad . no one can sing protest songs like joan baez.

[ladykarendean]

@northfourty Please read Dr. Karl Menninger's the Crime of Punishment. He would have loved this song.

[Calinn86]

there used to be a live performance of this song by joan baez on sing sing prison.. unfortunately it dissapeared.. if someone knows where can it be found please post the link here

[velvet2001861]

@Calinn86 it hasn't disappeared..i watched here on youtube the other night

[melrosemiss]

Joan and Buffy St. Marie, the best voices of the 60s and since. They didn't just sing, but gave us an agenda.

[Saladrazalahalahaz]

I wish the video of her performing this live in a prison was still up....

[51rooster]

I listen to to this some almost every day in car at home ect its personal to me I had to live it

[CrawdaddyJoe]

Viva the Black Cross! Down with the prisons!

[Mronehotfirefighter]

It sure brings backs memories of the good ole music I grew up with. We have very few musicians of this caliber now a days.

[elps84]

godalmighty this one takes me back.

tears me up

[knitedemon]

good one! one of the most underrated songs...great music, great lyrics...fucked up theme!!

[mezanoz]

This is my favorite song.. Thank you so much for uploading it.