Lyr Req: Johnny Will You (Foster & Allen )

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Will You (Foster & Allen )
From: GUEST,Miro
Date: 15 Aug 08 - 09:29 AM

Yes, Joe, suicide. Johnny would have thought(said) that going away
"weren't the worst" or "the world won't go worst" without him.
Miro

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Will You (Foster & Allen )
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Aug 08 - 01:33 AM

Hi, Miro - I still stick with For you said yourself it weren't the worst, although the pronunciation is more like "weretnt." I think he's taking about Johnny considering suicide.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Will You (Foster & Allen )
From: GUEST,Miro
Date: 14 Aug 08 - 09:56 PM

Thanks for your help, Jim. Pity you couldn't hear the whole song.
Thank you, MartinRyan. Both your remarks, I think, are valuable and worth taking into consideration.
Joe: Only a good ear could give a shot like yours. Thanks. Now tell me
what do you think of this, let's say, alternative to line 10:
For you said yourself: "the world won't go worst".
Miro

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Will You (Foster & Allen )
From: MartinRyan
Date: 14 Aug 08 - 06:42 AM

The sense of that second line is probably:

How are things? Alright?

In the line
It's meself, no doubt, that's in it now

"It's meself that's in it" is an English form of an Irish Gaelic expression expressing ideintity emphatically!

Regards

Subject: ADD: Johnny Will You (Ace & Shanon )
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Aug 08 - 02:48 AM

Well, Miro, here's my best shot. What do you think?
-Joe-

Johnny Will You
(Ace & Shanon)

Johnny, how you gettin on,
How are things all right? (?)
You told me you were here in London,
Workin' on the site.
It's meself, no doubt, that's in it now,
Don't you know me, I'm your friend?
Johnny, will you ne'er go home again?

They were worryin' when you didn't phone,
Or even drop a line,
For you said yourself it weren't the worst (?)
And the thought had crossed your mind.
There was a time you used to send
A postcard now and then,
Johnny, will you ne'er go home again?

Johnny, where's your dignity?
Johnny, where's your shame?
You're standing at the Underground
With a beer can in the rain.
From Edgware down to Charing Cross,
They all look much the same,
Johnny, will you ne'er go home again?

Johnny, will you give a damn,
Or do you really care?
Your sold your soul to a gambling (?) man,
And your wife and kids the same.
You're a stranger feelin' lonely,
Like a man without a name,
Johnny, will you ne'er go home again?



transcribed by ear from the Foster & Allen album "Forty Shades of Green".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Will You (Foster & Allen )
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:17 AM

I got this bit from a sound sample:

Johnny, where's your dignity? Johnny, where's your shame?
You're standing at the Underground with a beer can in the rain.
From Edgware down to Charing Cross....

Subject: Lyr Req: Johnny will you (Foster & Allen )
From: GUEST,Miro
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 10:03 AM

Can anyone help me? I'd like to have the lyrics to "Johnny will you"
(Shanon/Ace). The song is on Foster & Allen album "Forty Shades of Green".
Miro