Percy's Song

Bad news, bad news, come to me where I sleep"

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"Say, one of your friends is in trouble deep"

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"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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"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"His sentence it is passed and cannot be repealed"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 jumped forward and his face it did

freeze

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Saying "Could you kindly leave my office now please?"

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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

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And the only tune my guitar could play was "The Old

Cruel Rain And The Wind