Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say
Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
He got the action, he got the motion
Oh yeah, the boy can play
Dedication, devotion
Turning all the night time into the day
And after all the violence and double talk
There’s just a song in all the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of life
Yeah, you do the walk of life
Walk like an Egyptian.
Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
Said, “Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
I said, “Hey, honey,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
And the colored girls say,
“Doo do doo do doo do do doo…”
Don’t think me unkind
Words are hard to find
The only cheques I’ve left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They’re meaningless and all that’s true
da da da
da da da
da da da
Da da da I don’t love you you don’t love me
Da da da I don’t love you you don’t love me
Da da da I don’t love you you don’t love me
Da da da I don’t love you you don’t love me
Sha na na na, sha na na na na,
Sha na na na, sha na na na na,
Sha na na na, sha na na na na,
Sha na na na, sha na na na na,
Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip
Mum mum mum mum mum mum
Get a job
Sha na na na, sha na na na na
Like a sho be do wap sho be do wap wap
Sha na na na na na
Hey hey hey yea feels alright
Rock and roll is outta sight
You’ve caught that groove so please don’t stop
The room is alive with what you’ve got
Just keep me dancing while I’m hot
‘Cause I wanna treat my soul
To some old fashion rock n’ roll
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor you didn’t love me too
And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
He said that …
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang…
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Alone and loveless here,
Just the girl in the mirror
Just her and me, Wicked Witch of the East!
We deserve each other.
Alone at last in a hideaway
Far away from all the worries in the world
We come together like the sea and the sand
In a very private wonderland
Morning comes at last, and she’s lying by my side
She’s got the face of the widow that keeps following me
And the body of my bride
I say, why are those buildings swaying like trees?
I say, can we stop for a while?
She says, can’t you hear the city that’s hidden in there?
It’s just another mile
I’ll dream I’m safe
In my hotel womb
Soft and soul made
It’s a wonderful room
I wish I’m back
In my hotel womb
Slip through the crack
To that wonderful room
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong
Down the Rock Island line is a might good road
Oh the Rock Island line is the road to ride
The Rock Island line is a mighty good road
Well if you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island line
I don’t know why she ridin’ so high,
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me.
Before she gets to saying goodbye,
She ought to think twice,
She ought to do right by me.
I think I’m gonna be sad,
I think it’s today, yeah.
The girl that’s driving me mad
Is going away.
Ah, she’s got a ticket to ride,
She’s got a ticket to ride,
She’s got a ticket to ride,
But she don’t care.
Brace myself and let go
Start it over again in Mexico
These friends, they don’t love you
They just love the hotel suites
Now, I don’t care what you think
As long as it’s about me
The best of us can find happiness in misery
Said I don’t care what you think
As long as it’s about me
The best of us can find happiness in misery
Oh, Mexico
It sounds so simple I just got to go
Matilda, Matilda, Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.
Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong.
“You’ll never take me alive!” said he
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong:
“Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?”
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
“You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me”,
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong:
“Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?”
Carmen Miranda’s ghost is haunting Space Station 3
Not that we’re complaining, 'cause we get fresh fruit for free
But we can’t help but wonder what it means for the human race
When ghosts of generations past are heading out for space