Bad News, bad news, has come to where I sleep
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Saying one of my friends is in trouble deep
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Tell me the trouble, tell me once to my ears
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Joliet Prison for ninety-nine years
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A crash on the highway threw a car into a field
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There were four people killed and he was at the wheel
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But I know him as well as I know my own self
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And he wouldn't harm a life that belonged to someone else
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"That may be so," said the judge from the side of his mouth
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But the witness who saw it, he left little doubt
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He may, he may have a sentence for to serve
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But ninety-nine years he just does not 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His sentence it is passed and it cannot be repealed
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But he ain't no criminal, and his crime it is none
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And what happened to him could have happened to anyone
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At that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze
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Saying "Would you kindly leave my office now please"
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I squinted my eyes and I stood up so slow,
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With no other choice except for me to go
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Well, I walked down the hall and I heard his door slam
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I walked down the stairs, but I could not understand
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I played my guitar through the night and through the day
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But the only tune that my guitar would play
Was oh, how cruel the wind and the rain