[00:00.000] 作词 : Springsteen
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[00:17.511] Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month
[00:22.296] Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none
[00:28.589] He came home too drunk from mixin'Tanqueray and wine
[00:34.854] He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call'm Johnny 99
[00:41.309] Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop
[00:47.789] Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top
[00:53.187] When an off duty cop snuck up on him from behind
[00:59.302] Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99
[01:05.088] Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown
[01:11.578] He came into the courtroom and stared young Johnny down
[01:19.055] Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime
[01:24.048] Prison for 98 and a year and we'll call it even Johnny 99
[01:56.800] A fistfight broke out in the courtroom they had to drag Johnny's girl away
[02:03.155] His mama stood up and shouted "Judge don't take my boy this way"
[02:09.238] Well son you got a statement you'd like to make
[02:15.374] Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away
[02:22.379] Now judge judge I had debts no honest man could pay
[02:28.223] The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they was takin' my house away
[02:33.236] Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man
[02:40.007] But it was more 'n all this that put that gun in my hand
[02:46.545] Well your honor I do believe I'd be better off dead
[02:51.248] And if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head
[02:57.625] Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time
[03:03.426] And let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line