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Thread #44561   Message #655668
Posted By: Tiger
22-Feb-02 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: 'Johnny' Songs
Subject: Lyr Add: OH, JOHNNY! OH, JOHNNY! (Rose/Olman)
This one certainly fits. Don't think it's in the database.

OH, JOHNNY! OH, JOHNNY! — Billy Murray & American Quartette
Words by Ed. Rose, music by Abe Olman
From the musical "Follow Me"
Copyright 1917 by Forster Music Publishing Inc., Chicago

All the girls are crazy 'bout a certain little lad,
Altho' he's very, very bad,
He could be, oh, so good when he wanted to.
Bad or good he understood 'bout love and other things,
For ev'ry girl in town followed him around,
Just to hold his hand and sing:

Johnny tried his best to hide from ev'ry girl he knew,
But even this he couldn't do,
For they would follow him most ev'rywhere,
Then his friends got him to spend a week or two at home,
It's worse now than before, 'cause the girl next door,
Hollers thru the telephone: