I`m full of pride and my heart feels good


Got news from my fam`ly up in the woods


At last I can go back where I belong


Sweated it all out for nine long years


Couldn`t believe the voice in my ears  


When the man saying "No hiding ,son" 




So I left the only folks I had known


I was fifteen then, hardly grown


When they found me in the swamp face down in the mud


Couldn`t get back and I couldn`t go far


Said to myself stay right where you are


Done found yourself a Ma and Pa 


Ev`rybody said the kid`s no good




Come home Johnny Bride come home


Johnny Bride come home


We`re all wrong without you


How did we ever doubt you


He confessed to the killing


It`s his role we had you filling


We didn`t really mean to make you sad


But when you ran you made us think that you were twice as bad




I left the only folks I had known 


I was fifteen then , hardly grown


When they found me in the swamp face down in the mud


Couldn`t get back and I couldn`t go far


Said to myself stay right where you are


Done found yourself a Ma and Pa


Ev`rybody said the kid`s no good




Come Home Johnny Bride come home


Johnny Bride come home


We`re all wrong without you


How did we ever doubt you


He confessed to the killing


It`s his role we had you filling


We didn`t really mean to make you sad


But when you ran you made us think that you were twice as bad




(repeat last verse and fade out about line 6)