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Johnny Cash - Johnny 99 Lyrics

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  • Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late last 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
  • Dawn in that part of town where when you hit red light you don't stop
  • Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatin' to blow his top
  • When an off duty cop snuck up on him on from behind
  • Out in front of the club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99
  • Well the city suplied 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 fit the crime
  • Prison for 98 and a year will make it even Johnny 99
  • A fist fight 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
  • Yes judge I got debts no honest man could pay
  • The bank was holdin' my mortgage they was takin' my house away
  • Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man
  • But it was more than all this that put that gun in my hand
  • And your honor I do believe I'd be better off dead
  • If you can take a man's life for the thoughts that are in his head
  • Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over one more time
  • And let 'em shave off my hair and burn Johnny 99

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