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Johnny Too Bad Lyrics

Walking down the road
With an old blade in your hand,
Johnny too bad, that's what they say
Walking down the road
With a blade in your waist,
Johnny too bad, Johnny too bad
Don't you play come faking,
You're looking and mistaking,
Too bad
You're hurrying and you're shooting,
You're losing, told you,
You're too bad

Just one of these days,
You're going to make your woman cry:
Ooh, Johnny too bad
One of these days,
You're going to make your woman cry,
'Cause Johnny, you're so bad,
That's what they tell me about you
With you looking and sticking
Switchblade a-picking,
Too bad
Oh I told you, yes you did it,
Don't you, I told you, too bad
That's what they say about you

{guitar solo}

Walking down the road,
You're going to hear a voice say:
Go, Johnny, where you're going to run to,
Come that sweet day.
You may be walking down the road,
You're might hear a voice say:
Go, Johnny, where you're going to run to,
Come that sweet day
You might run to the rock for rescue,
You'll find a rock, you'll find a rock there
Run to the rock for rescue,
There will be no rock, be no rock at dawn

Walking down the road,
With a blade in your waist
(Johnny too bad)
Johnny too bad, Johnny too bad
Walking down the road,
With a blade in your, with a blade your waist
You're too bad Johnny, too bad Johnny, too bad Johnny
With your blade a picking, switchblade licking,
Too bad
With you licking and sticking, blade come picking,
Too bad, that's what they say about you
With your blade come licking, licking, sticking,
That's what they say about you
Licking, sticking, too bad

(J-J-J-J-J-J-Johnny)

Johnny go walking
Johnny go talking
Johnny go walking
Johnny go talking
Johnny go walking now
Johnny go talking
Johnny
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Cover art for Johnny Too Bad lyrics by Jimmy Cliff

This song is by The Slickers. Its about a rudy, a jamaican toughguy. It says "rachety in your waist" not blade. A ratchet is a popular jamaican slang for a knife. matter of fact, all these lyrics are wrong. Heres the right ones.

Walking down the road With your pistol in your waist, Johnny you're too bad. Walking down the road With your ratchet in your waist, Johnny you're too bad.

You're just robbing and you're stabbing and you're looting and you're shooting Now you're too bad. You're just robbing and you're stabbing and you're looting and you're shooting Now you're too bad.

One of these days when you hear a voice say come Where you gonna run to One of these days when you hear a voice say come Where you gonna run to

You're gonna run to the rock for rescue There will be no rock You're gonna run to the rock for rescue There will be no rock

{organ solo}

Walking down the road With your pistol in your waist, Johnny you're too bad. Walking down the road With your ratchet in your waist, Johnny you're too bad.

You're just robbing and you're stabbing and you're looting and you're shooting Now you're too bad. You're just robbing and you're stabbing and you're looting and you're shooting Now you're too bad.

One of these days when you hear a voice say come Where you gonna run to One of these days when you hear a voice say come Where you gonna run to

You're gonna run to the rock for rescue There will be no rock You're gonna run to the rock for rescue There will be no rock...

Great! I thank you earnestly for the corrections. You're a real pal (to Truth)!

 
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