diff --git a/library/ohai b/library/ohai
index 9ad520eead9..3b6f3ae144c 100755
--- a/library/ohai
+++ b/library/ohai
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/bin/bash
 
 # (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
 #
@@ -18,17 +18,4 @@
 # along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 #
 
-# requires 'ohai' to be installed
-
-try:
-    import json
-except ImportError:
-    import simplejson as json
-
-import subprocess
-
-cmd = subprocess.Popen("/usr/bin/ohai", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-out, err = cmd.communicate()
-
-# try to cleanup the JSON, for some reason facter --json doesn't need this hack
-print json.dumps(json.loads(out))
+/usr/bin/ohai