SCENE 18

3 Freshly Freed Prisoners singing “Hard Times”:

Freshly Freed Prisoners

I done hard time on this earth

Hard time on the rock pile

Hard time behind the bars

And now at last Im home.

Is there a face that knows my face?

A voice that knows my name?

Hard times in these free streets

If no one welcomes me.

Hard Times Hard Times

Hard Times Hard Times

Hard Times, if ya followed me this far,

I’ll just lay down and die.