Johnny99

Si conoces la versión original y no has visto a Bruce en su última gira, compara :O

Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month
Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none
He came home too drunk from mixin'Tanqueray and wine
He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call'm Johnny 99

Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop
Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top
When an off duty cop snuck up on him from behind
Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99

Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown
He came into the courtroom and stared young Johnny down
Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime
Prison for 98 and a year and we'll call it even Johnny 99

A fistfight broke out in the courtroom they had to drag Johnny's girl away
His mama stood up and shouted "Judge don't take my boy this way"
Well son you got a statement you'd like to make
Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away

Now judge judge I had debts no honest man could pay
The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they was takin' my house away
Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man
But it was more 'n all this that put that gun in my hand

Well your honor I do believe I'd be better off dead
And if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head
Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time
And let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bruce
• Springsteen
• Johnny99
• 2006

[Godsmasher22]

Holy Shit! That kicked absolute ass!

[beestonpoet]

THAT IS A AMSOLUTELY KICK ARSE VERSION AN PERFORMANCE OF JOHNNY 99! .. FUNKY AS HELL!.. bruce showing people who's BOSS! .. great band an project that was aswell! .. think they were real artistic with the aragements an jamming .. its joy to hear! such tallent cut loose! ... an having fun .. thanx 4 posting i love it!

[lawnboyph]

@bozz34 ditto. well said. but this version does kick a@@

[lawnboyph]

@bozz34 ditto.  well said.

[SuzzyStohelit]

Yep it's amazing, Bruce, runs the whole gauntlet without hardly a wince)

[brunburn]

Groove...true, genuine, amazing, awesome, epic, emotional...are we talking about Bruce?

[soutltank]

great arrangement and performance*****

[ponzus]

The Vote for Change version with the E Street was fantastic, at my advise... but the drums groove in this version is great! All the three versions of this song are great.

[bozz34]

Disagree. And the original is one of my favorite songs. The original identifies emotionally with Johnny almost exclusively, and is powerful because of it. This version is so much larger and grander it takes on a tragi-comic dimension that seems truer to who he is at this point as an artist.

[Godsmasher22]

He channels Ani DiFranco in the opening and then seems as if he has been in New Orleans forever. How the hell does that happen? Amazing.