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 

Refrain 1 
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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 

Refrain 1 
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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 

Refrain 2 

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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