Riot in Cell Block Number Nine - The Robins

July the second, it was 1963

I was servin' time for armed robbery

Four o’clock in the mornin', I was layin' back in my cell

I heard the whistle blow then I heard somebody yell

There’s a riot goin' on

There’s a riot goin' on

There’s a riot goin' on

Down in cell block # 9

The riot started down in cell block # 4

Spread like wild fire across the prison floor

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

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

Down in cell block # 9

Y’all gotta stop that stuff goin' on over there

If ya don’t stop that riot, y’all gonna get the chair

I said, «Hey now boys, get ready to run

Here come the warden with an automatic gun»

There’s a riot goin' on

There’s a riot goin' on

There’s a riot goin' on

Down in cell block # 9

In the forty seventh hour

The tear gas, it got our men

We are all back in our cells

But every now and then

There’s a riot goin' on

There’s a riot goin' on

There’s a riot goin' on

Down in cell block # 9