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