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