C
Willie Johnson was locking up his store Monday night

And someone snuck in and they commenced a fight
                                                        F
C
His wife Emilia found him lying on the freezer floor

G                            C
now this sleepy little town, it aint sleepy no more

F                           C
 Sheriff Walker holds three local boys in jail
                                       F                         C
They confessed right down to the last detail

F                                C
they beat Willie with a bat, He was 70 years old
                                                     G
C
Then they bought some beer with the six dollars they stole

                     G                                    C
Chorus: Well I know my anger is not politically cool
G                                                                    C
Am
But, brother we're in danger when kids can be so cruel as to kill for
play,
    Am                   C
F                             C
G         C
Dear God have mercy we're liven just like theres no judgment day

      C                             F                              C
Billy Haney is the youngest of the three accused
                                            F                         C
his grandpa got him as a baby hungry and abused
                                          F
C
but no one guessed the depth of his emotional scares
                                                  G
C
till we saw him on the news grinning like a movie star

                G                                         C
Chorus:Well I know my anger is not politically cool
      G                                                            C
Am
But, brother we're in danger when we can be so cruel, as throw our kids
away
       Am                 C
F                              C
G       C
Dear God have mercy we're living just like theres no judgment day

     C                              F                                C
Today the headlights lined in the drizzling rain
                                   F                              C
to the graveyard stretched a five mile chain

F                                         C
and we laid to rest one of this towns sweetest souls
                                                   G
C
And we barried the peace we know in that very same..........Hole