Come to me where I sleep"
"Say, one of your friends
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"Joliet prison and ninety-nine years"
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"Manslaughter in the highest degree"
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The best words I could write
I'd be there on Wednesday night
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Without a reply, I left by the moon
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"Would you tell me the facts,"
Could get ninety-nine years"
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"There was four persons killed
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"And he wouldn't harm a life
That belonged to someone else"
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Out of the side of his mouth
Saying "The witness who saw,
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He's got a sentence to serve"
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For his case it is sealed"
"His sentence it is passed
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"But he ain't no criminal
And his crime it is none"
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At that the judge jumped forward
And his face it did freeze
Saying "Could you kindly leave
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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
I walked down the courthouse stairs
Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
Through the night to the day
And the only tune my guitar could play
Was "The Old Cruel Rain And The Wind"