Percy's Song

Bad news, bad news

Come to me where I sleep

Turn, turn, turn again

Sayin' one of your friends

Is in trouble deep

Turn, turn to the rain and the wind

Tell me the trouble

Tell me once to my ear

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Joliet prison

And ninety-nine years

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Oh, what's the charge of how this came to be?

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Manslaughter in the highest degree

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I sat down and wrote

The best words I could write

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Explaining to the judge

I'd be there on Wednesday night

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Without a reply

I left by the moon

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And was in his chambers by the next afternoon

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Could you tell me the facts?

I said without fear

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That a friend of mine

Would get ninety-nine years

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A crash on the highway

Flew the car to the field

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There was four persons killed

And he was at the wheel

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But I knew him as good

As I'm knowing myself

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And he wouldn't harm a life

That belonged to someone else

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The judge, he spoke out of the side of his mouth

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Sayin', the witness who saw

He left little doubt

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That may be true

He's got a sentence to serve

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But ninety-nine years

He just don't deserve

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Too late, too late

For his case, it is sealed

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His sentence, it is passed

And cannot be repealed

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But he ain't no criminal

And his crime it is none

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What happened to him

Could happen to anyone

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At that, the judge jerked forward

And his face it did freeze

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Sayin', "Could you kindly leave my office now, please?"

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Well his eyes looked funny

And I stood up so slow

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With no other choice

Except for to go

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I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam

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I walked down the courthouse stairs and did not understand

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And I played my guitar

Through the night to the day

Turn, turn, turn again

And the only tune my guitar could play

Was the old cruel rain and the wind