Who Shot John - Chuck Prophet

They say I shot Montgomery

Shot him in the chest

It never went to trial

Montgomery confessed

They say possession is still

Nine-tenths of the law

Well what possessed you

To ask me who shot John

Eddy got probation

Went out and robbed a bank

While out at the end of Jackson

Fatty walked the plank

I can hear him laughing still

On the seventh floor

Eddy wrote me a letter

And asked me who shot John

Eddy dropped a kite from prison

Told me who shot John

I went out last Sunday

Ran into Cyril

He said I seen your friend Johnny

Out running with your girl

They were in the backseat

So I climbed into the front

And in all of the commotion

Tell me who shot John

There wasn’t anybody there

To witness who shot John