Bruce Springsteen - Johnny 99 (Electric Nebraska - Official Audio)

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"Johnny 99 - Electric Nebraska" Official Audio by Bruce Springsteen

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Lyrics:

Well, they closed down the Ford plant in Mahwah late that month

Johnny went out lookin’ for a job, but he couldn’t find none

He came home too drunk from mixin’ Tanqueray and wine

Got a gun, shot a night clerk, now they call’m Johnny 99

It was down in a part of town with a red light, buddy, you don’t stop

Johnny’s wavin’ a gun around and threatenin’ to blow his top

When an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind

Right there in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99

Well, the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown

He came into the courtroom and stared poor Johnny down

Well, the evidence is clear, gonna let the sentence son, fit the crime

Prison for 98 and a year and we’ll call it even Johnny 99

Well, a fistfight broke out in the courtroom

They had to drag Johnny’s girl away

His mama stood up and shouted

“Judge don’t take my boy this way”

Well, I'm sorry ma'am but the law must be satisfied

At your son's killing hands an innocent man died

You got anything you want to say son, before you ride

Judge, the bank was gonna come and take my house away

I had debts Your Honor, no honest man could pay

Well, now I ain’t sayin’ that makes me an innocent man

But it was more ‘n all this, sir, that put that gun in my hand

Now Your Honor, I do believe I’d be better off dead

So if you can take a man’s life for the thoughts that’s in his head

And I do believe sir, I'd be better off a dead man

‘Cause I shot that young boy

I shot him Judge, and I ran 

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