Fairport Convention - Percy's Song

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