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Johnny 99 (song)
"Johnny 99" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album ''Nebraska''.
==Performance and themes==
In "Johnny 99" Springsteen sings about an auto worker who gets laid off in Mahwah, New Jersey and shoots and kills a night clerk while drunk and distraught. As a result, he is apprehended and is sentenced to 99 years in prison, but requests to be executed instead.〔 On the song, Springsteen is accompanied only by his acoustic guitar.〔 Despite the bleakness of the song's themes - including unemployment, poverty, robbery, murder and possibly execution - the tune is ironically jaunty, with a shuffling rockabilly beat.
Like several other songs on the ''Nebraska'' album, "Johnny 99" is a song about complete despair. It has direct links with certain songs on ''Nebraska'': the protagonist in "Johnny 99" notes that he has "debts no honest man could pay," repeating a line used by the protagonist in "Atlantic City",〔 and, like the title song, "Johnny 99" is about a murderer〔 — though rather than being a psychopath like the protagonist in the title song, "Johnny 99" is motivated by his economic circumstances.〔
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