Johnny Was chords by Bob Marley
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Intro 1
(C major) (B minor) (D major) (A minor) (C major) (B minor)
(E minor)
Verse 1
(E minor) Woman
hold her head and cry
(C major) 'Cause her son had been (B minor) shot
down in the (D major) street and died (A minor)
(C major) From a stray (B minor) (E minor) bul let
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Verse 2
(E minor) Woman hold her head and cry
(C major) Explaining to her (B minor) was (D major) a passerby (A minor)
Who (C major) saw the (B minor) woman cry (E minor) (cry)
Wondering
How can she work it out
Now she (C major) knows that the (B minor) wages of (D major) sin is death,
(A minor) yeah!
(C major) Gift of (B minor) Jah is life (E minor) (life)
Verse 3
(E minor) She cried
Ah-um, (G major) I, (A minor) (B minor) I (A minor) I know!
Johnny was a (G major) good man (A minor)
(B minor) I, (A minor) I know! (never did a
thing wrong)
Johnny was (G major) a good, good, good, (A minor) good, good, good,
(B minor) good, good, (A minor) good, good, good man
(Johnny was (G major) good man) He (A minor) cried,
he (B minor) cried (A minor)
(E minor)
Verse 4
Wo-ooh! Woman Woman
hold her head and cry
As (C major) her son had been (B minor) shot
down in (D major) the street and died (A minor)
(C major) Just because (B minor) of the sys
tem (E minor) (system)
Verse 5
Woman hold her head and cry (E minor) (C major)
Comfort (B minor) ing her I (D major) was passing by (A minor)
She com (C major) plained, (B minor) then she cry
(E minor)
Verse 6
Oh-whoah
yeah, yeah, I (G major) (A minor) know now, (B minor) I (A minor) know,
I know now (G major) (Johnny was a good (A minor) man)
Said I know, (B minor) (A minor) hmm (Never did a
(G major) thing (A minor) (B minor) (A minor) (C major) wrong)
(Johnny was a (G major) good (A minor) man)
Can a woman tender care, (B minor) (A minor) she cried,
(Never did a (G major) thing (A minor) wrong)
Cease towards the child (B minor) she bear? (A minor)
(Johnny was a good man)
Wo-ho-ho-ooh! (G major) Woman (A minor) Woman Woman cry,
(B minor) (A minor) woman (Never did a thing wrong)
She cried, (G major) wo-o (A minor) h! She She cried, (B minor)
(A minor) yeah! (Johnny was a (G major) good man)
Can a wo (A minor) man tender care (B minor)
(A minor) Cease towards the (G major) child she bear?
(Never did (A minor) a (B minor) thing (A minor) wrong)
Wo-now,
cry! (Johnny was a (G major) goodman) (A minor)
Johnny Was
Bob Marley
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