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Thread #128255 Message #2873980
Posted By: Jim Dixon
28-Mar-10 - 01:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Jones Boys
Subject: Lyr Add: THE JONES BOY (Mills Brothers)
I guess you didn't mean this song, did you? It's identified on some albums as THE JONES BOYS—which makes no sense, because only one boy is mentioned in the song.
THE JONES BOY
Manny Kurtz/Victor Mizzy
As sung by the Mills Brothers with Sy Oliver and his Orchestra, Decca 28945, circa 1953?
The whole town's talkin' about the Jones boy,
The Jones boy, the Jones boy.
The whole town's talkin' about the Jones boy.
He acts mighty peculiar now.
The whole town's sayin' he was a good boy,
A nice boy, a swell boy.
The whole town's sayin' he's not a well boy.
He just isn't the same somehow.
He hops, he jumps
So merrily over the water pumps.
He stops and then
He'll come to a pump and he'll jump again.
They're buzzin' over the fences
That he's gone out of his senses.
The whole town's talkin' about the Jones boy,
The poor boy, the Jones boy,
But I just happen to be the Jones boy,
And I happen to be in love,
Yes, I happen to be in love.
[Also recorded by Bing Crosby, the Ames Brothers, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, and a few others.]