Gino Vannelli - The Long Arm Of Justice Lyrics
It was a high summer night along the Ouachita
Where in a town named Mammoth Hill
A boy was found at Times Picayune said
Left headless by the cotton gin mill
John Law was slow so the road ran free
Then on to the Carolines where it brought hard times
To many a family
One Otis Ray Stone weren't nobody's fool
He had the look of a righteous man
By day he plied his trade as a teacher
While by night getting blood on his hands
For thirty five years running high on the loose
Two steps ahead of the hangman's noose
Indeed, it seemed Otis Ray Stone would never atone
Yet the long arm of justice reaches far
From the banks of the Ouachita to the highest star
Like the hour hand on the wall
Like a snail creeping at a dead crawl
One fine day in some mysterious way
Justice finds us all
It finds us all
Many years hence on a Death Valley Road
While jackin' up his broke-down car
Came hell on wheels that left Otis Ray
Lying flat on the hot burnin' tar
For three long days, not a drop on his tongue
Suffering every crawler 'neath the desert sun
And old Otis Ray screamed while a crow picked his eyes clean
Before his dying was done
The long arm of justice reaches far
From the banks of the Ouachita to the highest star
Like the hour hand on the wall
Like a snail creeping at a dead crawl
One fine day in some mysterious way
Justice finds us all
Now, the mortal remains of Otis Ray Stone
Were never made manifest
'Cause what a crow had done to both his eyes
Ten buzzards did to the rest
And all that was, was a blot on the land
A heap of grey dust in the shape of a man
And the last of Otis Ray was finally swept away
By the blowing sand
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Gino Vannelli The Long Arm Of Justice Comments
My God, my God...he's still got that _unbelievable_ voice. How on earth!?
Una pasada
Heard this masterpiece in radio. I began to search it out immidately, and i am here, drunk with the style of this song <3
Good radio
Una meraviglia. Grazie Gino