Robert Cray - Poor Johnny lyrics

[Verse 1]

Have a seat and I'll tell you a tale

It wasn't that long ago..

About a guy who turned out to be a cheater got the heater

so the story goes:

He tried the playboy-thing on two friends

thinking that they'd never know.

They say he got caught in a trap and it snapped

He's not around anymore...

[CHORUS]

Poor johnny,

He came home looking cool one day,

just wasn't lucky to come out that way

once from the left... than from the right

they took him down, late that night.

[verse 2]

Now everyone in town knew he always played around

but not a word was said.

All the money and the clothes,

and the cars that he drove just kept his ego fed.

To his friends he was king,

cause he thought of everything

except his number one.

She had the kids and the house,

while he was always out

leaving his homework undone.

[chorus]

[Verse 3]

Than one day his luck ran out.

when number two found a number and called his house.

WOrd on the street is that they talked all night

They had to teach him a lesson,

they had to make things right.

[guitar Solo]

[chorus]*2

[guitar] + few times poor Johnny