Chord Percys Song by Bob Dylan

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - percys song - bob dylan tabbed by : xthething x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - capo on 2nd C F C bad news , bad news come to me where i sleep , G G6 G7 G G6 G7 turn , turn , turn again . C F sayin’ one of your friends is in trouble deep , Dm F G G6 G7 G G6 G7 turn , turn to the rain and the wind . tell me the trouble , tell once to my ear . joliet prison and ninety - nine years . oh what’s the charge of how this came to be? manslaughter in the highest of degree . i sat down and wrote the best words i could write , explaining to the judge i’d be there on wednesday night . without a reply , i left by the moon , and was in his chambers by the next afternoon . "could ya tell me the facts?" i said without fear , "that a friend of mine would get ninety - nine years . " a crash on the highway flew the car to a field . there was four persons killed and he was at the wheel . but i knew him as good as i’m knowin’ myself , and he wouldn’t harm a life that belonged to someone else . the judge spoke out of the side of his mouth , sayin’ , "the witness who saw , he left little doubt , " that may be true , he’s got a sentence to serve , but ninety - nine years , he just don’t deserve . too late , too late , for his case it is sealed . his sentence is passed and it cannot be repealed . but he ain’t no criminal and his crime it is none . what happened to him could happen to anyone . and at that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze , sayin’ , "could you kindly leave my office now , please , " well his eyes looked funny and i stood up so slow , with no other choice except for to go . i walked down the hallway and i heard his door slam , i walked down the courthouse stairs and i did not understand . and i played my guitar through the night to the day , turn , turn , turn again . and the only tune my guitar could play was , "oh the cruel rain and the wind . "