Percy's Song - Fairport Convention

"Bad news, bad news, 
Come to me where I sleep"
Turn, turn, turn again
"Say, 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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"Would you tell me the facts," 
I said without fear
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"That a friend of mine 
Could get ninety-nine years"
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"A crash on the highway, 
Flew the car to a 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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Saying "The witness who saw, 
He left without 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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