Poor Johhny chords by Robert Cray

Intro:

Bm F#m Em A Em A Em A (2x)


Verse 1:

Bm        F#m           Em          A
Have a seat and I'll tell you a tale

     Em         A       Em A
It wasn't that long ago..

        Bm              F#m          Em             A
About a guy who turned out to be a cheater got the heater

         Em   A     Em   A
So the story goes:


Bm                    F#m               Em
He tried the playboy-thing on two friends

A                     Em    A    Em A
Thinking that they'd never know.

      Bm         F#m          Em            A
They say he got caught in a trap and it snapped

          Em      A           Em   A
He's not around anymore...


Chorus:

Poor Johnny,

D                     F#m
He came home looking cool one day,

Bm                        G
Just wasn't lucky to come out that way

               D                    F#m
Once from the left... then from the right

               Bm               G       A
They took him down, late that night.


Verse 2:

    Bm           F#m           Em              A
Now everyone in town knew he always played around

           Em        A        Em   A
But not a word was said.

              Bm        F#m
All the money and the clothes,

         Em          A                   Em   A  Em A
And the cars that he drove just kept his ego fed.


         Bm            F#m             Em          A
To his friends he was king, cause he thought of everything

             Em     A  Em A
Except his number one.

              Bm           F#m        Em            A
She had the kids and the house, while he was always out

              Em       A    Em  A
Leaving his homework undone.


Chorus:

Poor Johnny,

D                     F#m
He came home looking cool one day,

Bm                        G
Just wasn't lucky to come out that way

               D                    F#m
Once from the left... then from the right

               Bm               G       A
They took him down, late that night.


Verse 3:

A                  F#m
Then one day his luck ran out.

             Bm                     F#m
When number two found a number and called his house.

 A                               F#m
Word on the street is that they talked all night

             A7
They had to teach him a lesson,

            A7
They had to make things right.


Chorus:

Poor Johnny,

D                     F#m
He came home looking cool one day,

Bm                        G
Just wasn't lucky to come out that way

               D                    F#m
Once from the left... then from the right

               Bm               G       A
They took him down, late that night.