Riot In Cell Block Number Nine

Riot In Cell Block Number Nine - The Coasters

Written by：Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller/Doc Pomus

On July the second 1953

I was serving time

For armed robbery

At four o'clock in the mornin'

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 trouble started 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 a automic 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 out with you hands up in the air

If you don't stop this riot

You all gonna get the chair

Scarface Jones said it's too late to quit

Pass the dynamite

Thousands 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 number nine