Lyrics Johnny Was (Alternate Mix).lrc Bob Marley & The Wailers
[id: wlhbdedn]
[ar: Bob Marley & The Wailers]
[al: Bob Marley Complete Collection]
[ti: Johnny Was (Alternate Mix)]
[length: 03:40]
[00:17.34]Woman hold her head and cry
[00:23.05]’Cause her son had been shot down
[00:26.32]In the street and died
[00:30.07]From a stray bullet (bullet)
[00:39.48]Woman hold her head and cry
[00:45.41]Explaining to her was a passer-by
[00:51.44]Who saw the woman cry (cry)
[00:59.61]Wondering how can she work it out
[01:07.07]Now she knows that the wages of sin is death
[01:14.37]Gift of Jah is life (life)
[01:20.18]She cried
[01:23.57]Oh, oh, oh, oh
[01:29.03]Johnny was a good man
[01:35.21]Johnny was a good, good, good (never did anything wrong)
[01:37.94]Good, good, good, good, good
[01:40.11]Good, good, good man (Johnny was a good man)
[01:42.63]Keep cryin’, she cried
[01:50.21]
[02:01.33]Woman hold her head and cry
[02:07.04]’Cause her son had been shot down
[02:10.24]In the street and died
[02:14.21]Just because of the system (system)
[02:23.26]Woman hold her head and cry
[02:30.69]Comforting her I was passing by
[02:35.27]She complained, then she cried (cried)
[02:43.10]Woah-oh, ah (ah)
[02:46.88]Yeah I know now, I know, I know
[02:49.56]I know now (Johnny was a good man)
[02:52.28]Said I know, uh (never did a thing wrong)
[02:59.54]Ush-ush, ush-uh (Johnny was a good man)
[03:05.22]Can a woman’s tender care
[03:08.52]She cried (never did a thing wrong)
[03:11.28]Cease towards the child she bears (Johnny was a good man)
[03:18.48]Woman cried, woman
[03:22.45]She cry, oh (never did a thing wrong)
[03:25.47]She cry, yeah (Johnny was a good man)
[03:30.26]And a woman’s tender care (never did anything wrong)
[03:34.14]Cease towards the child she bears
[03:38.21]Year of Release: 1976