Bruce Springsteen Johnny 99 Chords

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_ _ _ _ _ Well, they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month.
_ [B] Ralph went out looking for a job, but he [C#] couldn't find none.
_ He came [Bm] home too drunk from mixing tannery and wine.
_ Got a gunshot and nightclub, now [F#m] they call him Johnny [Bm] 99.
_ Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop.
Johnny's waving his gun around, threatening to blow his [F#] top.
_ When [Bm] an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind.
Out in front of the club tip-top, they [F#] slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99.
_ [B] Well, the city supplied a public [Em] defender, but the judge was named John Brown.
He came into the courtroom and stared young [F#] Johnny. _
Said [Bm] the evidence is clear, gonna let the sentence unfit the crime. _
Prisoned for 98 and a [F#] year, and we'll call it even Johnny 99.
The man, how you gonna like that?
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Well, the fist fight broke out in the courtroom. _ _ _
His mama stood up and shouted, judge don't take my boy [F#] this way.
_ [B] Well, son, you got any statement you'd like to make?
_ [Bm] Before the bailiff comes [C#] to forever take [B] you away.
_ [Bm] Well, judge, judge, I had debts no honest man could [B] pay.
The bank was holding my mortgage, they were gonna take my [F#] house away.
_ _ [Bm] Well, now I ain't saying that makes me an [B] innocent man.
But it was my honest [F#] judge that put that gun in [B] 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 [F#] his head.
Then [Bm] sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time.
_ Let them shave off my hair [F#] and put me on that [B] killing line.
Come on, let's do _ _ _ _ _ _ it. _ _ _ _ _ _
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