Intro
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[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
Bad news, bad news came to me where I sleep
G# G#7
Turn, turn, turn again
C# F#
Sayin’ one of your friends is in trouble deep
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
Tell me the trouble, tell me once to my ear
G# G#7
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C# F#
Joliet prison and ninety-nine years
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
Oh what is the charge of how this came to be
G# G#7
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C# F#
Manslaughter in the highest of degrees
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
I sat down and wrote the best words that I could write
G# G#7
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C# F#
Explaining to the judge I’d be there on Wednesday night
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
Without a reply I left by the moon
G# G#7
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C# F#
And was in his chambers by the next afternoon
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
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[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
“Could ya tell me the facts?”, I said without fear
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Turn, turn, turn again
C# F#
That a friend of mine would get ninety-nine years
D#m/A# F# G# G#7 G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
A# crash on the highway flew the car to a field
G# G#7
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C# F#
There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
But I know him as good as I’m knowin’ myself
G# G#7
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C# F#
And he wouldn’t harm a life that belonged to someone else
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Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
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The judge spoke out of the side of his mouth
G# G#7
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C# F#
Sayin’, “The witness who saw, he left little doubt”
D#m/A# F# G# G#7 G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
That may be true, he’s got a sentence to serve
G# G#7
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C# F#
But ninety-nine years he just don’t deserve
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
Too late, too late for his case it is sealed
G# G#7
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C# F#
His sentence is passed and it cannot be repealed
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Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
But he ain’t no criminal and his crime it is none
G# G#7
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C# F#
What happened to him could happen to anyone
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Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
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[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
And at that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze
G# G#7
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C# F#
Sayin’, “Could you kindly leave my office now, please”
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Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
The room was funny and I stood up so slow
G# G#7
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C# F#
With no other choice except but for to go
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam
G# G#7
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C# F#
I walked down the courthouse stairs and I did not understand
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
2/4
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[Verse]
C# F# C#/G#
I played my guitar through the night to the day
G# G#7
Turn, turn, turn again
C# F#
And the only tune my guitar could play
D#m/A# F# G# G#7
Was, “Oh the Cruel Rain and the Wind”
[Solo]
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2/4
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