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