...JOHNNY WAS... by Bob Marley
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*from 'Positive Vibration' (1976)*
Intro:
D C#m7, E Bm7
D C#m7, F#m
Verse 1:
F#m
Woman hold her head and cry,
D C#m7 E Bm7
'Cos her son had been shot down in the street and died,
D C#m7 F#m
From a stray bullet.
Verse 2:
F#m
Woman hold her head and cry,
D C#m7 E Bm7
Ex-plaining to her, was a passer-by;
D C#m7 F#m
Who saw the woman cry. Wondering...
Verse 3:
F#m
How can she work it out,
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Now she knows that the wages of sin is death, yeah?
D C#m7 F#m
Gift of Jah is life. She cried...
Chorus 1:
A Bm7 C#m7 Bm7 A Bm7
Ah-um, I, I know; Johnny was a good man.
C#m7 Bm7 A Bm7
Allah, I know; Johnny was a good, good, good,
C#m7 Bm7
Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good man".
A Bm7 C#m7 Bm7
(Johnny was good man), she cried, she cri....ed.
Interlude:
F#m
Verse 4:
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F#m
Woman hold her head and cry,
D C#m7 E Bm7
As her son had been shot down in the street and died,
D C#m7 F#m
Just be-cause of the system.
Verse 5:
F#m
Woman hold her head and cry,
D C#m7 E Bm7
Comforting her, I was passing by.
D C#m7 F#m
She com-plained, then she cry.
Chorus 2:
A Bm7
Yeah, yeah, I know now,
C#m7 Bm7 A
No I know, I know now; (Johnny was a good man).
Bm7 C#m7 Bm7 A Bm7
Said I know, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm, (never did a thing wrong).
C#m7 Bm7 A
Ah! Ah! (Johnny was a good man),
Bm7 C#m7 Bm7 A
Can a woman tender care, she cried, (never did a thing wrong).
Bm7 C#m7 Bm7
Cease towards the child she bear?
A Bm7 C#m7 Bm7
(Johnny was a good man), woman cry, woman,
A Bm7 C#m7 Bm7
She cried, wo-oh! she cried, yeah!
A
(Johnny was a good man),
Bm7 C#m7
Can a woman tender care,
Bm7 A Bm7 C#m7 Bm7
Cease towards the child she bear?
(Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)
