C                      F                           C     F
    Willie Johnson was locking up his store Monday night
C                        F                    C     F

    And someone snuck in and they commenced a fight
C                             F                    C     F
    His wife Emilia found him lying on the freezer floor
C                            G                  C    F
Now this sleepy little town, it ain't sleepy no more


[Verse 2]
C                        F                   C   F
    Sheriff Walker holds three local boys in jail
C                        F                   C   F
    They confessed right down to the last detail
C                           F                    C   F
    They beat Willie with a bat, He was 70 years old
C                                   G                C F C
Then they bought some beer with the six dollars they stole


[Chorus]
     G                                  C
Well I know my anger is not politically cool
     G                                     C (walk down)F    Am
But, brother we're in danger when kids can be so cruel as to kill for play,
              C           F                        C  G        C   F   C  F
Dear God have mercy we're living just like there's no judgment day


[Verse 3]
C                      F                     C       F
    Billy Haney is the youngest of the three accused
C                            F               C      F
    His grandpa got him as a baby hungry and abused
C                          F                      C     F
    But no one guessed the depth of his emotional scars
C                           G                     C F C
Till we saw him on the news grinning like a movie star


[Chorus 2]
     G                                  C
Well I know my anger is not politically cool
     G                                   C (walk down) F            Am
But, brother we're in danger when we can be so cruel, as throw our kids away
              C           F                        C  G        C   F   C   F
Dear God have mercy we're living just like there's no judgment day


[Verse 4]
C                              F                   C    F
    Today the headlights lined up in the drizzling rain
C                    F                     C     F
    To the graveyard stretched a five mile chain
C                              F                   C    F
    And we laid to rest one of this towns sweetest souls
       C                   G (hold 4 beats)                     C  F  C F C
And we buried the peace we know               in that very same hole