[Intro]
E F#
E F#
E F#
E F#
 
[Verse 1]
E B                        E
  I'm full of pride and my heart feels good
                        Emaj7
Got news from my family up in the woods
C#m              F#           E        B
At last I can go back where I belong
B                      E
Sweated it all out for nine long years
                     Emaj7            C#m
Couldn't believe the voice in my ears
C#m          F#                E       B
When the man saying "no hiding ,son"
B                  E
So I left the only folks I had known
                    Emaj7
I was fifteen then, hardly grown
C#m                       F#                     E      B
When they found me in the swamp face down in the mud
B                 E
Couldn't get back and I couldn't go far
                    Emaj7
Said to myself stay right where you are
C#m                 F#
Done found yourself a ma and pa
F#                 E        B
Everybody said the kid's no good
 
[Chorus]
B                E      B
Come home Johnny Bridie come home
F#            B
Johnny Bridie come home
F#
We're all wrong without you
    E
How did we ever doubt you
B
He confessed to the killing
     E
It's his role we had you filling
B                                 E
We didn't really mean to make you sad
F#           E F#            E F#
But when you ran you made us think
         E F#              E F#
That you were twice as bad
 
E F#
E F#
E F#
 
[Verse 2]
E B               E
  I left the only folks I had known
                     Emaj7         C#m
I was fifteen then , hardly grown
C#m                       F#                     E      B
When they found me in the swamp face down in the mud
B                 E
Couldn't get back and I couldn't go far
                    Emaj7
Said to myself stay right where you are
C#m                 F#
Done found yourself a ma and pa
F#                 E        B
Everybody said the kid's no good
 
[Chorus]
B                E      B
Come home Johnny Bridie come home
F#            B
Johnny Bridie come home
F#
We're all wrong without you
    E
How did we ever doubt you
B
He confessed to the killing
     E
It's his role we had you filling
B                                 E
We didn't really mean to make you sad
F#           E F#            E F#
But when you ran you made us think
         E F#              E F#
That you were twice as bad
 
E F#
E F#
E F#
 
[Chorus]
E B                E      B
  Come home Johnny Bridie come home
F#            B
Johnny Bridie come home
F#
We're all wrong without you
    E
How did we ever doubt you
B
He confessed to the killing