Poor Johnny - Robert Cray Band

[Intro]
 
[Bm F#m] [Em A] [Em A] [Em A] (2x)
 
 
[Verse 1]
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Have a seat and I'll tell you a tale
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It wasn't that long ago..
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About a guy who turned out to be a cheater got the heater
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So the story goes:
 
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He tried the playboy-thing on two friends
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Thinking that they'd never know.
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They say he got caught in a trap and it snapped
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He's not around anymore...
 
[Chorus]
    Poor Johnny,
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    He came home looking cool one day,
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    Just wasn't lucky to come out that way
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    Once from the left... then from the right
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    They took him down, late that night.
 
[Verse 2]
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Now everyone in town knew he always played around
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But not a word was said.
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All the money and the clothes,
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And the cars that he drove just kept his ego fed.
 
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To his friends he was king, cause he thought of everything
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Except his number one.
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She had the kids and the house, while he was always out
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Leaving his homework undone.
 
[Chorus]
        
[BRIDGE]
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Then one day his luck ran out.
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When number two found a number and called his house.
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Word on the street is that they talked all night
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They had to teach him a lesson,
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They had to make things right.

[INSTRUMENTAL VERSE]
[Bm F#m] [Em A] [Em A] [Em A] (2x)

[Chorus X 2]

[Fade on INSTRUMENTAL VERSES]
    

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