Lyr Req: Johnny Macree

06 Dec 00 - 12:57 PM (#352448)
Subject: Johnny Macree
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

I need help.. "It will all come right says Johnny Macree" It is an old folksong..anyone out there knows anything?? Please help me. thanks-hl

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06 Dec 00 - 01:35 PM (#352466)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Macree
From: GUEST,Bruce O.

That looks like it might be a line from some version of Tom/Brian O'Linn/Bolyn (and a lot of other names). In the DT search for 'Bolyn' and 'Bolynn' for versions.

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28 Jul 02 - 11:12 PM (#756164)
Subject: Lyr Add: JOHNNY MACREE
From: Jim Dixon

Copied from http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/public/lyrics/cs-uwp/m/misc.folk/johnny_macree

"In Pankake & Pankake's "Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book" the following song is given without music:

JOHNNY MACREE

The days are short and the nights are long
And the wind is nipping cold.
The tasks are hard and the sums are wrong
And the teachers often scold.
But Johnny Macree, oh, what cares he
As he whistles along the way,
As he whistles along the way?
"It will all come right by tomorrow night,"
Says Johnny Macree today.

The plums are few and the cake is plain
And the shoes are out at toe.
For coins you look in the purse in vain:
They were all spent long ago.
But Johnny Macree, oh, what cares he
As he whistles along the street,
As he whistles along the street?
"Would you have the blues for a pair of shoes
When you still have a pair of feet?"

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28 Jul 02 - 11:19 PM (#756166)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Macree
From: Jim Dixon

Email sent.

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18 Mar 03 - 08:44 PM (#913034)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Johnny Macree
From: Joe_F

Does anyone know the tune?

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