Riot Cell Block Lyrics

Riot In Cell Block #9

recorded by various people, including Dr. Feelgood and the Blues Brothers

December the 6th, 1953,

I was doin' time for armed robbey,

'Bout four in the morning,

I was sleepin' in my cell,

I heard a whistle blow,

I heard somebody yell...

There's a riot goin' on

There's a riot goin' on

There's a riot goin' on

Up in cell block number nine.

The warden said,

"Come out with your hands up in the air,

If you don't stop this riot,
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you're all gonna get the chair".

Scarface Jones said, "It's too late to quit,

And pass the dynamite, cause the fuse is lit."

There's a riot goin' on

There's a riot goin' on

There's a riot goin' on

Up in cell block number nine.

The forty-second hour, the tear gas got our men,

We're all back in our cells now,

But every now and then...

There's a riot goin' on

There's a riot goin' on

There's a riot goin' on

Up in cell block number nine.

Transcribed by Rich Kulawiec, rsk@ecn.purdue.edu