Key: F
Introduction: D C#m E Bm
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Woman hold her head and cry,
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cause her son had been shot down in the street and die
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, from a stray bullett.......
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Woman hold her head and cry,
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explaining to her was a passerby
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who saw the woman cry....... wondering
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How can she work it out,
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now she knows that the wages of sin is death,
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oh gift Jah Jah life (life).........she cried
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Oh, oh, I know, Johnny was a good man,
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I know, Johnny was a good, good, good, good, good,
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Woman hold her head and cry,
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cause her son had been Shot down in the street and die,
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just because of the system
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Woman hold her head and cry,
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comforting her I was Passing by,
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she complained, then she cried......she cried
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Oh, oh, I know, Johnny was a good man,
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I know, Johnny was a good, good, good, good, good,
jah!!!!!!