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作词 : Springsteen

 Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month
 Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none
 He came home too drunk from mixin'Tanqueray and wine
 He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call'm Johnny 99
 Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop
 Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top
 When an off duty cop snuck up on him from behind
 Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99
 Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown
 He came into the courtroom and stared young Johnny down
 Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime
 Prison for 98 and a year and we'll call it even Johnny 99
 A fistfight broke out in the courtroom they had to drag Johnny's girl away
 His mama stood up and shouted "Judge don't take my boy this way"
 Well son you got a statement you'd like to make
 Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away
 Now judge judge I had debts no honest man could pay
 The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they was takin' my house away
 Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man
 But it was more 'n all this that put that gun in my hand
 Well your honor I do believe I'd be better off dead
 And if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head
 Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time
 And let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line