Key: B
Introduction: E F# E F# E F# E F#
E B E
I'm full of pride and my heart feels good
E7M
Got news from my family up in the woods
C#m F# E B
At last I can go back where I belong
B E
Sweated it all out for nine long years
E7M C#m
Couldn't believe the voice in my ears
C#m F# E B
When the man saying "no hiding ,son"
B E
So I left the only folks I had known
E7M
I was fifteen then, hardly grown
C#m F# E B
When they found me in the swamp face down in the mud
B E
Couldn't get back and I couldn't go far
E7M
Said to myself stay right where you are
C#m F#
Done found yourself a ma and pa
F# E B
Everybody said the kid's no good
B E B
Come home Johnny Bridie come home
F# B
Johnny Bridie come home
F#
We're all wrong without you
E
How did we ever doubt you
B
He confessed to the killing
E
It's his role we had you filling
B E
We didn't really mean to make you sad
F# E F# E F#
But when you ran you made us think
E F# E F#
That you were twice as bad
E B E
I left the only folks I had known
E7M C#m
I was fifteen then , hardly grown
C#m F# E B
When they found me in the swamp face down in the mud
B E
Couldn't get back and I couldn't go far
E7M
Said to myself stay right where you are
C#m F#
Done found yourself a ma and pa
F# E B
Everybody said the kid's no good
B E B
Come home Johnny Bridie come home
F# B
Johnny Bridie come home
F#
We're all wrong without you
E
How did we ever doubt you
B
He confessed to the killing
E
It's his role we had you filling
B E
We didn't really mean to make you sad
F# E F# E F#
But when you ran you made us think
E F# E F#
That you were twice as bad
E B E B
Come home Johnny Bridie come home
F# B
Johnny Bridie come home
F#
We're all wrong without you
E
How did we ever doubt you
B
He confessed to the killing