Intro
A# C
A# C
A# C
A# C
[Verse 1]
A# F A#
I'm full of pride and my heart feels good
A#maj7
Got news from my family up in the woods
Gm C A# F
At last I can go back where I belong
F A#
Sweated it all out for nine long years
A#maj7 Gm
Couldn't believe the voice in my ears
Gm C A# F
When the man saying "no hiding ,son"
F A#
So I left the only folks I had known
A#maj7
I was fifteen then, hardly grown
Gm C A# F
When they found me in the swamp face down in the mud
F A#
Couldn't get back and I couldn't go far
A#maj7
Said to myself stay right where you are
Gm C
Done found yourself a ma and pa
C A# F
Everybody said the kid's no good
[Chorus]
F A# F
Come home Johnny Bridie come home
C F
Johnny Bridie come home
C
We're all wrong without you
A#
How did we ever doubt you
F
He confessed to the killing
A#
It's his role we had you filling
F A#
We didn't really mean to make you sad
C A# C A# C
But when you ran you made us think
A# C A# C
That you were twice as bad
A# C
A# C
A# C
[Verse 2]
A# F A#
I left the only folks I had known
A#maj7 Gm
I was fifteen then , hardly grown
Gm C A# F
When they found me in the swamp face down in the mud
F A#
Couldn't get back and I couldn't go far
A#maj7
Said to myself stay right where you are
Gm C
Done found yourself a ma and pa
C A# F
Everybody said the kid's no good
[Chorus]
F A# F
Come home Johnny Bridie come home
C F
Johnny Bridie come home
C
We're all wrong without you
A#
How did we ever doubt you
F
He confessed to the killing
A#
It's his role we had you filling
F A#
We didn't really mean to make you sad
C A# C A# C
But when you ran you made us think
A# C A# C
That you were twice as bad
A# C
A# C
A# C
[Chorus]
A# F A# F
Come home Johnny Bridie come home
C F
Johnny Bridie come home
C
We're all wrong without you
A#
How did we ever doubt you
F
He confessed to the killing