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Thread #11115   Message #1210251
Posted By: Jim Dixon
18-Jun-04 - 11:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: No Tears for Jonny(Johnny)?
Subject: Lyr Add: NO TEARS FOR JOHNNY (from Chad & Jeremy)
Chad and Jeremy recorded NO TEARS FOR JOHNNY on their 1964 album "Yesterday's Gone" (as well as several later compilations). Here's the complete track list:

1. A Summer Song (Metcalfe/Noble/Stuart)
2. Now and Forever (Dean)
3. Dirty Old Town (MacColl)
4. Like I Love You Today (Alquist/Stuart)
5. September in the Rain (Dubin/Warren)
6. Yesterday's Gone (Kidd/Stuart)
7. If She Was Mine (Goldsboro)
8. Willow Weep for Me (Ronell)
9. Only for the Young (?)
10. Too Soon My Love (Alquist)
11. The Truth Often Hurts the Heart (Metcalfe/Noble)
12. No Tears for Johnny (Springfield-Hawker)

It also appears on Ian Whitcomb's "You Turn Me On!/Mod, Mod Music Hall" (2 LPs reissued as one CD).

Lyrics copied from The Official Chad & Jeremy Website:

NO TEARS FOR JOHNNY
(Tom Springfield*)

No tears for Johnny
People, don't you cry
No tears for Johnny
Just because he's gonna die
He's gonna be a hero
From now till the end of time
So shed no tears for Johnny boy
Marching in the thin red line

When the drums begin to roll
Trumpets start to blow
Johnny must not reason why
He knows he's gotta go
Fight for power and glory
Johnny, go to war
And if a hundred boys should die
We can send in a hundred more

No tears for Johnny
People, don't you cry
No tears for Johnny
Just because he's gonna die
A lesson for the world to learn
Is one that we all ignore
So Johnny keep on marching till
We forget what you're marching for

[*Some sources say the songwriter is "Barry Springfield-Hawker," "Springfield-Hawker," or "Springfield/Hawker;" some say "Hal Shaper."]