โหลดเพลง mp3 Johnny 99 (Live at Giants Stadium, E. Rutherford, NJ - August 1985) - Bruce Springsteen

Johnny 99(Live) - Bruce Springsteen
Well they closed down the auto plant
in mahwah late that month

Ralph went out looking for a job

but he couldn't find none

He came home to drunk
from mixing tanqueray and wine

He got a gun shot a night clerk
now they call johnny 99

Down in the part of town
where when you hit a red light you don't stop

Johnnys waving his gun around
and threatening 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 young johnny down

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

Prison for 98 and a year
and well call it even johnny 99

A fist fight broke out in the courtroom

they had to drag johnnys girl away

His mama stood up and shouted

judge don't take my boy this way

Well son you got a statement you'd like to make

Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away

Now judge I had debts no honest man could pay

The bank was holding my mortgage
and they were gonna take my house away

Now I ain't saying that makes me an innocent man

But it was more on all this
that put that gun in my hand

Well 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

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

And let them shave off my hair
and put me on that killing line