Intro
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[Verse]
F A# F/C
Bad news, bad news came to me where I sleep
C C7
Turn, turn, turn again
F A#
Sayin’ one of your friends is in trouble deep
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
Tell me the trouble, tell me once to my ear
C C7
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F A#
Joliet prison and ninety-nine years
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
Oh what is the charge of how this came to be
C C7
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F A#
Manslaughter in the highest of degrees
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
I sat down and wrote the best words that I could write
C C7
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F A#
Explaining to the judge I’d be there on Wednesday night
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
Without a reply I left by the moon
C C7
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F A#
And was in his chambers by the next afternoon
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
2/4
| F | A# | F/C | C | C | C7 |
2/4
| F | A# | Gm/D | A# | C C7 | C |
[Verse]
F A# F/C
“Could ya tell me the facts?”, I said without fear
C C7
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F A#
That a friend of mine would get ninety-nine years
Gm/D A# C C7 C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
D crash on the highway flew the car to a field
C C7
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F A#
There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel
Gm/D A# C C7
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[Verse]
F A# F/C
But I know him as good as I’m knowin’ myself
C C7
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F A#
And he wouldn’t harm a life that belonged to someone else
Gm/D A# C C7 C C7
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[Verse]
F A# F/C
The judge spoke out of the side of his mouth
C C7
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F A#
Sayin’, “The witness who saw, he left little doubt”
Gm/D A# C C7 C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
That may be true, he’s got a sentence to serve
C C7
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F A#
But ninety-nine years he just don’t deserve
Gm/D A# C C7
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[Verse]
F A# F/C
Too late, too late for his case it is sealed
C C7
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F A#
His sentence is passed and it cannot be repealed
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
But he ain’t no criminal and his crime it is none
C C7
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F A#
What happened to him could happen to anyone
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
2/4
| F | A# | F/C | C | C | C7 |
2/4
| F | A# | Gm/D | A# | C C7 | C | % |
[Verse]
F A# F/C
And at that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze
C C7
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F A#
Sayin’, “Could you kindly leave my office now, please”
Gm/D A# C C7 C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
The room was funny and I stood up so slow
C C7
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F A#
With no other choice except but for to go
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
F A# F/C
I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam
C C7
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F A#
I walked down the courthouse stairs and I did not understand
Gm/D A# C C7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
2/4
| F | A# | F/C | C | C | C7 |
2/4
| F | A# | Gm/D | A# | C C7 | C C7 |
[Verse]
F A# F/C
I played my guitar through the night to the day
C C7
Turn, turn, turn again
F A#
And the only tune my guitar could play
Gm/D A# C C7
Was, “Oh the Cruel Rain and the Wind”
[Solo]
2/4
| F | A# | F/C | C | C | C7 |
2/4
| F | A# | Gm/D | A# | C | G