Chords for Bruce Springsteen - Johnny 99

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_ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ But he closed down the auto plant in Marwauk,
where that _ _ Ralph went out looking for a job.
But he couldn't find [F#] none.
He came [B] home to draw from this tangerine and wine.
_ He got a gunshot in that [F#] clerk.
Now they call him Johnny [B] 99. _ _
Down in the heart of town, where we're shittered,
that ain't gonna stop.
Johnny's waving his gun around and threatening the [F#] boys tall. _
[B] When in off-duty, cops knock up on the behind.
Out in front of the collective truck,
[F#] slap the cops on Johnny [B] 99.
_ [E] Every city's proud of public defender,
[B] but the judge didn't need John Brown.
He came into the courtroom
and stared poor [F#] Johnny down.
[B] Fairly evident, it's clear,
going to the sentence on the crime.
Prison for 98 and a year,
[F#] but we'll call that even Johnny [B] 99. _
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_ _ _ [E] This fag broke out in the courtroom.
[B] They had the great Johnny.
_ His [G#m] mama stood [B] up and shouted,
Judge, don't take my [F#] boy out this way.
[B] Well, son, you've got a statement you'd like to make
before the [E] bailiff [F#] comes and hurts [B] you away.
_ Now, Judge, Judge, I got this honest man could be.
_ The bank was holding my mortgage and taking [F#] my house away.
_ [B] Now, I ain't saying that make me an innocent man,
_ but it was more or less [F#] that he put that gun [B] in my hand. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And if you can take a man's life
with a cross that's [F#] in his head,
then won't [B] you sit back and let Judge
think it over, Judge, one more time?
_ Let him shave off my [F#] hair and put me on the [B] execution line.
Woo-hoo!
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ Woo-woo! _
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