E|E|E|E|E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------||||| Percy’s Song – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
Outtake, recorded Oct 26, 1963
Released on: “Biograph” (1985)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Capo: 2nd fret
Play: C
Key: D
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Basic pattern
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E|--------------0-|----------------|
B|----1-----------|----1-----------|
G|----------0-----|----------0-----|
D|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
A|3---------------| 3---------------|
E|--------3-------|--------3-------|
dominant turnaround
GG7
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E|----------------|
B|----0-----------|
G|----------0-----|
D|----0h2-----0h3-|
A|----------------|
E|3-------3-------|E|E|E|E|E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|||||
CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
C/G 3-x-2-0-1-0
Dm/A x-0-0-2-3-1
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[Intro]
| C | % |
[Verse]
CFC/G
Bad news, bad news came to me where I sleep
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
Sayin’ one of your friends is in trouble deep
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
Tell me the trouble, tell me once to my ear
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
Joliet prison and ninety-nine years
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
Oh what is the charge of how this came to be
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
Manslaughter in the highest of degrees
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
I sat down and wrote the best words that I could write
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
Explaining to the judge I’d be there on Wednesday night
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
Without a reply I left by the moon
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
And was in his chambers by the next afternoon
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
2/4
| C | F | C/G | G | G | G7 |
2/4
| C | F | Dm/A | F | GG7 | G |
[Verse]
CFC/G
“Could ya tell me the facts?”, I said without fear
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
That a friend of mine would get ninety-nine years
Dm/AFGG7GG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
A crash on the highway flew the car to a field
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
But I know him as good as I’m knowin’ myself
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
And he wouldn’t harm a life that belonged to someone else
Dm/AFGG7GG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
The judge spoke out of the side of his mouth
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
Sayin’, “The witness who saw, he left little doubt”
Dm/AFGG7GG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
That may be true, he’s got a sentence to serve
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
But ninety-nine years he just don’t deserve
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
Too late, too late for his case it is sealed
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
His sentence is passed and it cannot be repealed
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
But he ain’t no criminal and his crime it is none
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
What happened to him could happen to anyone
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
2/4
| C | F | C/G | G | G | G7 |
2/4
| C | F | Dm/A | F | GG7 | G | % |
[Verse]
CFC/G
And at that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
Sayin’, “Could you kindly leave my office now, please”
Dm/AFGG7GG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
The room was funny and I stood up so slow
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
With no other choice except but for to go
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Verse]
CFC/G
I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
I walked down the courthouse stairs and I did not understand
Dm/AFGG7
Turn, turn to the rain and the wind
[Solo]
2/4
| C | F | C/G | G | G | G7 |
2/4
| C | F | Dm/A | F | GG7 | GG7 |
[Verse]
CFC/G
I played my guitar through the night to the day
GG7
Turn, turn, turn again
CF
And the only tune my guitar could play
Dm/AFGG7
Was, “Oh the Cruel Rain and the Wind”
[Solo]
2/4
| C | F | C/G | G | G | G7 |
2/4
| C | F | Dm/A | F | G | G