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Oh Johnny Boy you're gonna learn
With your sharp tongue and not-so-calloused hands
You brought your city education to the backwoods
Where your words can get you cut down where you stand
Your first day in the hollow
You got hit before you knew you're in a fight
A stranger meant to teach you manners with his fist
When your words came out next to impolite
Not just the Blackwater's high
This fellow's the wrong kind of mean
Now none of your fast talking can speak
Loud as methamphetamine
I hope you survive the lesson
His woman went to get his gun
Now fighters they would fight now
And runners they might take this time to run
But Johnny boy just stood inside his shoes
As if untroubled by a fist or by a gun
Johnny wasn't brave now
And resolve is not what showed upon his face
It was nothing more than shock and disbelief
At being hit that kept him rooted in that place
Not just the Blackwater's high
This fellow's the wrong kind of mean
Now none of your fast talking can speak
Loud as methamphetamine
I hope you survive the lesson
His woman went to get his gun
Johnny's friends they got him running
With tatters of his dignity in tow
And proving that he's learned a thing or two now
There are parts of West Virginia he won't go
Not just the Blackwater's high
This fellow's the wrong kind of mean
Now none of your fast talking can speak
Loud as methamphetamine
I hope you survive the lesson
His woman went to get his gun

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