Percy's Song-Fairport Convention

[ti:Percy's Song] [ar:Fairport Convention] [al:Unhalfbricking] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.30]"Bad news bad news come to me where I sleep" [00:04.70] [00:05.60]Turn turn turn again [00:09.87] [00:10.96]"Say one of your friends is in trouble deep" [00:16.49]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [00:21.79] [00:26.17]"Tell me the trouble tell me once to my ear" [00:31.07]Turn turn turn again [00:35.32] [00:36.61]"Joliet prison and ninety-nine years" [00:41.81]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [00:46.46] [00:48.52]"Oh what's the charge of how this came to be " [00:56.30]Turn turn turn again [01:00.18]"Manslaughter in the highest degree" [01:05.68] [01:06.66]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [01:14.49]I sat down and wrote the best words I could write [01:20.95]Turn turn turn again [01:24.07]Explaining to the judge I'd be there on Wednesday night [01:30.89]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [01:37.61]Without a reply I left by the moon [01:45.55]Turn turn turn again [01:49.39] [01:50.59]And was in his chambers by the next afternoon [01:55.88]Fairport Convention [01:58.52]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [02:00.94] [02:05.02]"Would you tell me the facts " I said without fear [02:09.69]Turn turn turn again [02:13.91] [02:15.06]"That a friend of mine could get ninety-nine years" [02:20.29]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [02:25.69] [02:29.19]"A crash on the highway flew the car to a field" [02:33.87]Turn turn turn again [02:38.01]"There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel" [02:44.35]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [02:49.82] [02:53.24]"But I knew him as good as I'm knowing myself" [02:57.35] [02:58.31]Turn turn turn again [03:02.14] [03:02.92]"And he wouldn't harm a life that belonged to someone else" [03:08.30]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [03:12.93] [03:16.11]The judge he spoke out of the side of his mouth [03:22.14]Turn turn turn again [03:25.99] [03:26.96]Saying "The witness who saw he left without doubt" [03:31.10] [03:31.88]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [03:37.28]"That may be true he's got a sentence to serve" [03:46.07]Turn turn turn again [03:50.08] [03:50.74]"But ninety-nine years he just don't deserve" [03:56.40]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [04:05.54]"Too late too late for his case it is sealed" [04:10.15]Turn turn turn again [04:14.00] [04:14.93]"His sentence it is passed and cannot be repealed" [04:20.39]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [04:24.68] [04:27.92]"But he ain't no criminal and his crime it is none" [04:33.61]Turn turn turn again [04:38.31] [04:39.38]"What happened to him could happen to anyone" [04:44.56]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [04:49.64] [04:53.34]At that the judge jumped forward and his face it did freeze [04:58.60]Turn turn turn again [05:03.23]Saying "Could you kindly leave my office now please " [05:08.62]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [05:12.90] [05:17.44]His eyes looked funny and I stood up so slow [05:22.44]Turn turn turn again [05:25.15]With no other choice except for to go [05:32.61]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [05:38.50] [05:41.41]I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam [05:46.10]Turn turn turn again [05:50.26] [05:51.40]I walked down the courthouse stairs and did not understand [05:55.61] [05:56.74]Turn turn to the rain and the wind [06:04.08]And I played my guitar through the night to the day [06:10.56]Turn turn turn again [06:14.40] [06:15.12]And the only tune my guitar could play was "The Old Cruel Rain And The Wind"