Johnny 99 chords by The Loved Ones
Guitar chords with lyrics
Verse 1:
B
Well they closed down the auto
plant in Mahwah late that month
B
Ralph went out looking for a
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job but he couldn't find none
B
He came home too drunk from
mixing Tanqueray and wine
B
Got a gun shot a night clerk
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now they call him Johnny 99
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Verse 2:
B
Down in the part of town where
when you hit a red light you
don't stop Johnny's waving his
B
gun around threatening to blow
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his top Til an off duty cop
snuck up on him from behind
B
Out front of the club Tip Top
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they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99
Chorus 1:
E
Well the city supplied a public
B
defender but the judge was mean
B
John Brown He came into the
courtroom and stared young Johnny
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down Well the evidence is clear
gonna let the sentence son fit
the crime Prison for 98 and a
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year and call it even Johnny 99
Post Chorus:
B B F# B B F# B
Chorus 2:
E
A fist fight broke out in the
B
courtroom they had to drag
B
Johnny's girl away His mama
stood up and shouted Judge
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don't take my boy this way
B
Well son you got any
statement you'd like to make
B
Fore the bailiff come
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to forever take you away
Verse 4:
B
Judge judge I had debts
no honest man could pay
B
The bank was holding my
mortgage and were gonna
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take my house away
B
Well I ain't saying that
makes me an innocent man
B
But it was more than all this
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that put that gun in my hand
Chorus 3/Outro:
B
Well your honor I do believe
I'd be better off dead And if
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you can take a man's life for
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the thoughts that's in his head
B
Well sit back in that chair
and think it over judge
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one more time Gonna shave
off my hair and put me
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