| Born again on a island of sale
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| He lived there six months
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| Too long
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| Only ten out of jail
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| He looked at me his eyes were haggard and pale
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| His skin was tarnished and torn
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| Just like a rusted old nail
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| Well some people pass through
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| This world with no pain
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| But Johnny mingled in its
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| Company again and again
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| He said he wanted to see
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| Paradise and travel so far
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| All he’d seen of it was standing
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| Hind' those ugly prison bars
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| So many people they come
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| Good people they come
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| From a broken road
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| So many good people they come
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| From a broken road
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| So many good people they come
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| Good people they come
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| They come and they go
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| Johnny hailed from the city
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| Of thieves
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| He’d cut his teeth down
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| Backwards alleys since 1973
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| He said he’d had trouble run
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| That was easy to see
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| He traveled East to West
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| Didn’t miss a single penitentiary
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| From the Bronx over to Queen’s
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| Down in South Jersey
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| I-95 to West Virginia
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| Well they caught up in Cincinnati
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| Crossed the Mason Dixon border
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| Kansas City, Oklahoma
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| The Devil on the shoulder of a
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| Good hearted man
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| Woah' can you out-run the
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| Weight of the world
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| The wight of the world
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| When it’s holding you down?
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| Woah can you out-last the pain
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| Of the fall, the pain of the fall
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| When you fall to the ground?
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| So many good people they
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| Come good people they come
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| From a broken road
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| So many good people they
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| Come good people they come
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| They come and they go |