Johnny Was

...JOHNNY WAS... by Bob Marley

*from 'Positive Vibration' (1976)*

Intro:

Verse 1:

Woman hold her head and cry,

'Cos her son had been shot down in the street and died,

From a stray bullet.

Verse 2:

Woman hold her head and cry,

Ex-plaining to her, was a passer-by;

Who saw the woman cry. Wondering...

Verse 3:

How can she work it out,

Now she knows that the wages of sin is death, yeah?

Gift of Jah is life. She cried...

Chorus 1:

Ah-um, I, I know; Johnny was a good man.

Allah, I know; Johnny was a good, good, good,

Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good man".

(Johnny was good man), she cried, she cri....ed.

Interlude:

Verse 4:

Woman hold her head and cry,

As her son had been shot down in the street and died,

Just be-cause of the system.

Verse 5:

Woman hold her head and cry,

Comforting her, I was passing by.

She com-plained, then she cry.

Chorus 2:

Yeah, yeah, I know now,

No I know, I know now; (Johnny was a good man).

Said I know, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm, (never did a thing wrong).

Ah! Ah! (Johnny was a good man),

Can a woman tender care, she cried, (never did a thing wrong).

Cease towards the child she bear?

(Johnny was a good man), woman cry, woman,

She cried, wo-oh! she cried, yeah!

(Johnny was a good man),

Can a woman tender care,

Cease towards the child she bear?

(Fade)

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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)