Intro 
G    C  D 
     Ah-ah 
G    C  D 
     Ah-ah 


Verse 

G 
Riding in the back seat 
C                  D 
Rolling through the neighborhood 
G 
Brought up in the back streets 
C                     D 
Wouldn't change if he could 
G 
It's better than the factory 
C                              D 
Or the shopping mall where you work 
G 
Johnny doesn't actually 
       C               D 
Have to load the gun to make it work 


[Refrão]
C               D 
    And all the boys round Johnny 
      G       Em           Bm 
They wanna be dealers and thugs 
C               D                     G 
    But Johnny knows that it ain't no good 
C            D 
    When the teacher asked him, 
G              Em         Bm 
"Who would you be if you could?" 
C            D             G  
    "I wanna be like Robin Hood, 
     G 
Robin Hood" 

Verse 

G 
He ran in from the alley 
       C                 D 
To the Halifax where she worked 
G 
Gotta love Sally 
    C                     D 
She didn't flinch when he burst 
G 
In through the doorway 
       C                  D 
With a sawn-off under his shirt 
    G 
She knew in the worst way 
     C                  D 
That he was the man for her 



[Refrão]
C               D 
    And all the boys round Johnny 
      G       Em           Bm 
They wanna be rappers and thugs 
C               D                     G 
    But Johnny knows that it ain't no good 
C            D 
    When the teacher asked him, 
G              Em         Bm 
"Who would you be if you could?" 
C            D             G  
    "I wanna be like Robin Hood, 

Bridge 1 
                         
                        A 
And I'll steal from the rich 
                Bm 
I'll give to the poor 
            C 
I'll stop police from 
                  Em 
Knocking down the door 
           A 
I steal it all 
                Bm 
Then I'll steal more 
               C 
And I'll never end up 
                       G 
Behind the Jail Guitar Doors 


Solo 

C  D  G  Em  
C  D  G        x2 
  


Verse 


G                 C 
      And to this day 
      D            G 
As an actual fact 
                 C 
In the best way 
              D                       G 
They've still got each other's backs 
   C 
15 Years 
  D               
2 heart attacks 
G 
   2 children 


G                               C 
Sally's mother always asks her, 
      D                   G 
"What is it about Johnny, 
                            C          D 
What is it about Johnny that makes you bother?" 
          G 
She says, 
                               C 
"There's a few things that are true 
                D 
In this life of wonder, 
G          
Everybody hates the law, 
    C       D 
And everyone loves a bank 
G        
robber, robber, robber 
                C 
robber, robber, robber!" 


D            G                               C 
Loves a bank robber, robber, robber, robber, robber!" x7 

      

Outro 

C               D 
    And all the boys round Johnny 
      G       Em           Bm 
They wanna be rappers and thugs 
C               D                     G 
    But Johnny knows that it ain't no good 
C            D 
    When the teacher asked him, 
G              Em         Bm 
"Who would you be if you could?" 
C            D             G  
    "I wanna be like Robin Hood, 
      G 
Robin Hood"