Woman hold her head and cry   Cause her son had been shot down in the street and died   From a stray bullet      Woman hold her head and cry   Accompanying her was a passer-by   Who saw the woman cry      Wondering can she work it out   Now she knows that the wages of sin is death   The gift of God is life      Oh, oh, oh, oh   Johnny was a good man   oh yeah      Woman hold her head and cry   Cause her son had been shot down in the street and died   Just because of the system      Woman hold her head and cry   Comforting her I was passing by   And I saw the woman cry      She cried, oh, oh, oh, oh   Johnny was a good man   Never did a thing wrong      Take it down      Johnny went out on a Saturday night   Never hurt anybody never started no bar room fight   Johnny never did nobody no wrong   Never hurt anybody never hurt anybody   Johnny was a good man   Johnny, Johnny, Johnny...      Johnny was a good man   (Repeat)      In a top floor flat in the middle of the night   There's a man with rifle and Johnny in his sight,   I said oh no, we can't let that kind of thing happen here no more   Oh no   Johnny, Johnny, Johnny...      A single shot rings out in a Belfast night and I said oh   Johnny was a good man      Can a woman's tender care   Cease towards the child she bears      Johnny (Repeat)