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

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"Johnny 99 - Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ" Official Audio by Bruce Springsteen

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Lyrics:

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

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

He came home too drunk from mixin’ Tanqueray and wine

He got a gun, shot a night clerk, now they call him Johnny 99

Down in the part of town girl when you hit a red light you don’t stop

Johnny’s wavin’ his gun around, threatenin’ to blow his top

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

Out 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 son, you got any statement you’d like to make

Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away

Now Judge, Judge I had debts no honest man could pay

The bank was holdin’ my mortgage, they were comin' to take my house away

Now I ain’t sayin’ that makes me an innocent man

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

Well Your Honor, I believe that I’d be better off dead

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

Then sit back in that chair and think it over Judge, one more time

And let ’em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line

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