Intro
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[Verse]
E A E/B
Bad news, bad news came to me where I sleep
B B7
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E A
Sayin’ one of your friends is in trouble deep
F#m/C# A B B7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
E A E/B
Tell me the trouble, tell me once to my ear
B B7
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E A
Joliet prison and ninety-nine years
F#m/C# A B B7
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[Verse]
E A E/B
Oh what is the charge of how this came to be
B B7
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E A
Manslaughter in the highest of degrees
F#m/C# A B B7
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[Verse]
E A E/B
I sat down and wrote the best words that I could write
B B7
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E A
Explaining to the judge I’d be there on Wednesday night
F#m/C# A B B7
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[Verse]
E A E/B
Without a reply I left by the moon
B B7
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E A
And was in his chambers by the next afternoon
F#m/C# A B B7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
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[Verse]
E A E/B
“Could ya tell me the facts?”, I said without fear
B B7
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E A
That a friend of mine would get ninety-nine years
F#m/C# A B B7 B B7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
E A E/B
C# crash on the highway flew the car to a field
B B7
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E A
There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel
F#m/C# A B B7
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[Verse]
E A E/B
But I know him as good as I’m knowin’ myself
B B7
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E A
And he wouldn’t harm a life that belonged to someone else
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[Verse]
E A E/B
The judge spoke out of the side of his mouth
B B7
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E A
Sayin’, “The witness who saw, he left little doubt”
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[Verse]
E A E/B
That may be true, he’s got a sentence to serve
B B7
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E A
But ninety-nine years he just don’t deserve
F#m/C# A B B7
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[Verse]
E A E/B
Too late, too late for his case it is sealed
B B7
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E A
His sentence is passed and it cannot be repealed
F#m/C# A B B7
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[Verse]
E A E/B
But he ain’t no criminal and his crime it is none
B B7
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E A
What happened to him could happen to anyone
F#m/C# A B B7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
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| E | A | F#m/C# | A | B B7 | B | % |
[Verse]
E A E/B
And at that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze
B B7
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E A
Sayin’, “Could you kindly leave my office now, please”
F#m/C# A B B7 B B7
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[Verse]
E A E/B
The room was funny and I stood up so slow
B B7
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E A
With no other choice except but for to go
F#m/C# A B B7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
E A E/B
I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam
B B7
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E A
I walked down the courthouse stairs and I did not understand
F#m/C# A B B7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
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| E | A | F#m/C# | A | B B7 | B B7 |
[Verse]
E A E/B
I played my guitar through the night to the day
B B7
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E A
And the only tune my guitar could play
F#m/C# A B B7
Was, “Oh the Cruel Rain and the Wind”
[Solo]
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| E | A | F#m/C# | A | B | G