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