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`His sentence it is passed and cannot be repealed`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 Send " Percy S Song" Ringtone to your Cell