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)