Intro
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verse 1
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His mother was a prostitute. His father was a john
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She left him in his birthday suit and then his mom was gone
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T'was a shame he had a mother that he would never know
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So they named him for his farther they called the kid John Doe
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He was born with out a family no place to call his home
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No branches on his family tree John Doe was all alone
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verse 2
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His mother could never cared for him and she was not coming back
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Only thing she ever shared with him was a the side effects of her crack
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Orphan's homes and broken bones he was scarred from his past
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Pushed and shoved, a lack of love he grew up hard and fast
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He Was born with out a family no place to call his home
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No branches on his family tree, John Doe was all alone
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verse 3
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He got in fights, dropped out of school, he never said, "I do"
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Might is was the only rule That John Doe ever knew.
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One night there was an argument, In a downtown hotel bed
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Somehow that fight got violent John Doe wound up dead
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He was murdered by a prostitute stabbed again him in the heart
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They found him in his birthday suit a stone's throw from the start
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Refrain Outro
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In a morgue in the City of Sin with a tag on his toe
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Lies a poor boy with no next of kin BORN AND DIED John Doe
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Lies a poor boy with no next of kin BORN AND DIED John Doe