Bad news from swing street Jonathan was only seventeen when armed he went into the cours of S. Rafael in august nineteen seventy Bad news from swing street He came from the america ghettoes to get his blood brothers free but the bullets of law didn’t hear him Inside and outside the prisons do what there’s to do transmit the signal of fire with the blood in the eyes Bad news from swing street George was only fourteen when they put him in prison for a seven dollar robbery Bad news from swing street Nobody bends his black pride so the guards killed him in august nineteen seventy-one Inside and outside the prison do what there’s to do transmit the signal of fire with the blood in the eyes Bad news from swing street clench your fists, don’t cry now you kmow the story of the Jackson’ brothers killed by the american racist rule Bad news from swing street George and Jonathan, brave and free, shed their blood for the justice that justice guides us still Inside and outside the prison do what there’s to do transmit the signal of fire with the blood in the eyes