Johnny Was
feat Bunny Ruggs

How can a woman's tender care
Cease toward the child she bear
The youth shot in the street just like that
Stop the guns before they stop us

Bunny Ruggs: Woman hold her head and cried
Cause her son had been shot down in the streets and died
From a stray bullet

P Brown: Mother band her belly and bawl
Bunny Ruggs: Wondering how can she work it out
Now she knows that the wages of sin is death,
Gift of Jah is life

P Brown: Mother band her belly and bawl
By the gun shot her one son just fall
Johnny wasn't bad I tell you Johnny was a good man
Him get caught in a cross fire situation

Bunny Ruggs: All of you know Johnny was a good man

P Brown: Mother band her belly and bawl
By the gun shot her one son just fall
Johnny wasn't bad I tell you
Johnny was a good man

Bunny Ruggs: Woman hold her head and cried
Cause her son had been shot down in the streets and died
Just because of the system

P Brown: Oh Johnny poor Johnny
One away man him never walk away in a posse no

 

Writers: R Marley / F Cotterell / B O'Hare / S Stewart
Publishers: Tuff Gong Music / Cosmo Music / CARBAR Music (ASCAP)
Drums: Barry O'Hare / Delroy Collins
Keys: S Stewart / Barry O'Hare
Bass: Collin Elliot
Guitar: Cat Coore
Background vocals: Cat Coore / Ibo Cooper