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Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement. Their seminal album Liege & Lief is generally considered to have launched the electric folk or English folk rock movement, which provided a distinctively English identity to rock music and helped awaken much wider interest in traditional music in general. The large number of personnel who have been part of the band are among the most highly regarded and influential musicians of their era and have gone on to participate in a large number of significant bands, or enjoyed important solo careers. Since 1979 they have hosted the Cropred… more »

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1969

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"Bad news, bad news, 
 Come to me where I sleep"
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "Say, one of your friends 
 Is in trouble deep"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 "Tell me the trouble, 
 Tell me once to my ear"
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "Joliet prison and ninety-nine years"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 "Oh, what's the charge 
 Of how this came to be?"
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "Manslaughter in the highest degree"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 I sat down and wrote 
 The best words I could write
 Turn, turn, turn again
 Explaining to the judge 
 I'd be there on Wednesday night
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 Without a reply, I left by the moon
 Turn, turn, turn again
 And was in his chambers 
 By the next afternoon
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 "Would you tell me the facts," 
 I said without fear
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "That a friend of mine 
 Could get ninety-nine years"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 "A crash on the highway, 
 Flew the car to a field"
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "There was four persons killed 
 And he was at the wheel"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 "But I knew him as good 
 As I'm knowing myself"
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "And he wouldn't harm a life 
 That belonged to someone else"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 The judge he spoke 
 Out of the side of his mouth
 Turn, turn, turn again
 Saying "The witness who saw, 
 He left without doubt"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 "That may be true, 
 He's got a sentence to serve"
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "But ninety-nine years 
 He just don't deserve"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 "Too late, too late, 
 For his case it is sealed"
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "His sentence it is passed 
 And cannot be repealed"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 "But he ain't no criminal 
 And his crime it is none"
 Turn, turn, turn again
 "What happened to him 
 Could happen to anyone"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 At that the judge jumped forward 
  And his face it did freeze
 Turn, turn, turn again
 Saying "Could you kindly leave 
 My office now please?"
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 His eyes looked funny 
 And I stood up so slow
 Turn, turn, turn again
 With no other choice except for to go
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 I walked down the hallway 
 And I heard his door slam
 Turn, turn, turn again
 I walked down the courthouse stairs 
 And did not understand
 Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind
 
 And I played my guitar 
 Through the night to the day
 Turn, turn, turn again
 And the only tune my guitar could play 
 Was "The Old Cruel Rain And The Wind"

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