Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Long Arm Of Justice, artist - Gino Vannelli. Album song Wilderness Road, in the genre Иностранная авторская песня
Date of issue: 04.04.2019
Record label: Sono Recording Group
Song language: English
The Long Arm Of Justice |
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 |
From the swamps of Louisiana to the hills of Tennessee |
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 |
For what he done to many a poor youth |
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 |