Johnny 99

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Well they closed down the auto plant
 in Mahwah late that month
Ralph went out lookin' for a job but
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 he couldn't find none
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He came home too drunk from 
mixin'Tanqueray and wine
He got a gun shot a night clerk now 
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they call him Johnny 99
Down in the part of town where when 
you hit a red light you don't stop
Johnny's wavin' his gun around and 
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threatenin' to blow his top
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When an off duty cop snuck up on him
 from behind
Out in front of the Club Tip Top 
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they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99
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Well the city supplied a public 
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defender but the judge was Mean John
 Brown
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He came into the courtroom and 
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stared poor Johnny down
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Well the evidence is clear gonna let
 the sentence son fit the crime
Prison for 98 and a year and we'll 
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call it even Johnny 99

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A fistfight broke out in the 
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courtroom they had to drag Johnny's 
girl away
His mama stood up and shouted Judge 
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don't take my boy this way
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Well son you got any statement you'd
 like to make
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Before the bailiff comes to forever
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 take you away
Now judge judge I had debts no 
honest man could pay
The bank was holdin' my mortgage and
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 they was takin' my house away
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Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an 
innocent man
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But it was more 'n all this that 
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put that gun in my hand
Well your honour I do believe I'd be
 better off dead
And if you can take a man's life for
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 the thoughts that's in his head
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Then won't you sit back in that 
chair and think it over judge one 
more time
And let 'em shave off my hair and 
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put me on that execution line

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