Intro
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[Verse]
G C G/D
Bad news, bad news came to me where I sleep
D D7
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G C
Sayin’ one of your friends is in trouble deep
Am/E C D D7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
G C G/D
Tell me the trouble, tell me once to my ear
D D7
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G C
Joliet prison and ninety-nine years
Am/E C D D7
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[Verse]
G C G/D
Oh what is the charge of how this came to be
D D7
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G C
Manslaughter in the highest of degrees
Am/E C D D7
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[Verse]
G C G/D
I sat down and wrote the best words that I could write
D D7
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G C
Explaining to the judge I’d be there on Wednesday night
Am/E C D D7
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[Verse]
G C G/D
Without a reply I left by the moon
D D7
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G C
And was in his chambers by the next afternoon
Am/E C D D7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
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[Verse]
G C G/D
“Could ya tell me the facts?”, I said without fear
D D7
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G C
That a friend of mine would get ninety-nine years
Am/E C D D7 D D7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
G C G/D
E crash on the highway flew the car to a field
D D7
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G C
There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel
Am/E C D D7
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[Verse]
G C G/D
But I know him as good as I’m knowin’ myself
D D7
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G C
And he wouldn’t harm a life that belonged to someone else
Am/E C D D7 D D7
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[Verse]
G C G/D
The judge spoke out of the side of his mouth
D D7
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G C
Sayin’, “The witness who saw, he left little doubt”
Am/E C D D7 D D7
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 D7
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G C
But ninety-nine years he just don’t deserve
Am/E C D D7
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[Verse]
G C G/D
Too late, too late for his case it is sealed
D D7
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G C
His sentence is passed and it cannot be repealed
Am/E C D D7
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 D7
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G C
What happened to him could happen to anyone
Am/E C D D7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
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[Verse]
G C G/D
And at that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze
D D7
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G C
Sayin’, “Could you kindly leave my office now, please”
Am/E C D D7 D D7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
G C G/D
The room was funny and I stood up so slow
D D7
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G C
With no other choice except but for to go
Am/E C D D7
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 D7
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G C
I walked down the courthouse stairs and I did not understand
Am/E C D D7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
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[Verse]
G C G/D
I played my guitar through the night to the day
D D7
Turn, turn, turn again
G C
And the only tune my guitar could play
Am/E C D D7
Was, “Oh the Cruel Rain and the Wind”
[Solo]
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