Key: D
Introduction:
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The word is out from street to street
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Little Johnny East is Dead
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They wrapped him in his winding sheet
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and set a stone above his head
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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The relics of his reckless games
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little Johnny east is dead
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His cars and trucks and ships and planes
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are in a box beneath his bed
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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the Sun beats down and the winter rages
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little Johnny east is dead
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And all the dust from all the ages
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settles down upon his head
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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There comes a time we cannot name
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little Johnny east is dead
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When cars and trucks and ships and planes
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Will stain the seams of rock rust red.
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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When bed and toys and blood and bones
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little Johnny east is dead
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Locked inside a seam of stone
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where shoals of shimmering fishes roam
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and unimagined sharks
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cruise over head
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
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Sleep Johnny Sleep
Outro