Riot in Cell Block Number Nine

Riot in Cell Block #9 - The Coasters

On july the second 1953

I was serving time for armed robbery

Four o'clock in the morning I was sleeping in my cell

I heard the whistle blow then I heard somebody yell

There's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

Up in cell block number nine

The riot started down in cell block number five

Spread like fire across the prison floor

I said ok boys get ready to run

Here come the warden with an automatic gun

There's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

Up in cell block number nine

The warden said come on with you hands up the air

If you don't stop that riot you all gonna get the chair

Scarface jones said it's too late to quit

Pass the dynamite cause the fuse is lit

There's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

Up in cell block number nine

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 going on

There's a riot going on

There's a riot going on

Up in cell block 9