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