[ti:Johnny 99]
[ar:The Loved Ones]
[al:Distractions]
[by:]
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[00:00.26]Well they closed down the auto
[00:01.84]Plant in mahwah late that month
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[00:05.87]Ralph went out looking for a job
[00:07.74]But he couldn't find none
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[00:11.93]He came home too drunk from
[00:13.32]Mixing tanqueray and wine
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[00:17.34]He got a gun shot a night clerk now
[00:19.23]They callm johnny 99
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[00:23.00]Down in the part of town where
[00:24.84]When you hit a red light you don't stop
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[00:28.25]Johnny's waving his gun around
[00:30.78]And threatening to blow his top
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[00:34.57]When an off-duty cop
[00:35.76]Snuck up on him from behind
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[00:39.48]Out in front of the club tip top they
[00:41.45]Slapped the cuffs on johnny 99
[00:44.22]
[00:45.03]Well the city supplied a public defender
[00:48.47]But the judge was mean john brown
[00:50.86]
[00:51.85]He came into the courtroom
[00:54.41]And stared young johnny down
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[00:58.27]Well the evidence is clear gonna
[00:59.88]Let the sentence son fit the crime
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[01:03.48]Prison for 98 and a year and
[01:05.27]Well call it even johnny 99
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[01:31.49]A fist fight broke out in the courtroom
[01:34.38]They had to drag johnny's girl away
[01:36.61]
[01:37.38]His mama stood up and shouted judge
[01:39.99]Don't take my boy this way
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[01:44.03]Well son you got a statement you'd like to make
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[01:49.62]Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away
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[01:55.21]Now judge I had debts no honest man could pay
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[02:00.34]The bank was holding my mortgage and
[02:02.13]They were gonna take my house away
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[02:06.07]Now I ain't saying that makes me an innocent man
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[02:11.60]But it was more'n all this
[02:13.13]That put that gun in my hand
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[02:17.01]Well your honor I do believe
[02:19.07]I'd be better off dead
[02:21.17]
[02:22.53]So if you can take a mans life for
[02:24.44]The thoughts that's in his head
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[02:28.08]Then sit back in that chair and
[02:29.63]Think it over judge one more time
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[02:34.83]And let 'em shave off my hair and
[02:36.73]Put me on that killing line
[02:40.12]Johnny 99 - The Loved Ones
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