Come Home Johnny Bridie

I'm full of pride and my heart feels goodGot news from my family up in the woodsAt last I can go back where I belongSweated it all out for nine long yearsCouldn't believe the voice in my earsWith the man saying "No hiding ,son"

So I left the only folks I had knownI was fifteen then, hardly grownWhen they found me in the swamp, face down in the mudCouldn't get back and I couldn't go farSaid to myself "Stay right where you are"Done found yourself to Ma and PaEverybody said "The kid's no good"

Come home, Johnny Bridie, come homeJohnny Bridie, come homeWe're all wrong without youHow did we ever doubt youHe confessed to the killingIt's his role we had you fillingWe didn't really mean to make you sadBut when you ran you made us thinkThat you were twice as bad

I left the only folks I had knownI was fifteen then, hardly grownWhen they found me in the swamp, face down in the mudCouldn't get back and I couldn't go farSaid to myself "Stay right where you are"Done found yourself to Ma and PaEverybody said "The kid's no good"

Come home, Johnny Bridie, come homeJohnny Bridie, come homeWe're all wrong without youHow did we ever doubt you...