# Songs with John/Johnny in Them **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171 "2003-07-22T16:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/1 "2003-07-22T16:22:11Z")
Need your help! I need a list of songs with John or Johnny in them. Please include the name of the song and the line, if possible. Thanks!!! There’s Johnny B. Goode… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/2 "2003-07-22T16:23:47Z")
Just from titles alone: Johnny Get Angry Big Bad John Johnny Don’t Do It (by 10cc) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/3 "2003-07-22T16:31:39Z")
Frankie and Johnny John Brown’s Body John Henry John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier Oh, Johnny! When Johnny Comes Marching Home ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/4 "2003-07-22T16:33:58Z")
Belle and Sebastian’s “Slow Graffiti”: “Listen Johnny, you’re like a mother to the girl you’ve fallen for” ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/5 "2003-07-22T16:36:00Z")
New Order, _1963_ NoFX, _Johnny Appleseed_ That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/6 "2003-07-22T16:42:30Z")
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros also had a song called “Johnny Appleseed.” Also, “Abraham, Martin, and John.” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/7 "2003-07-22T16:51:58Z")
_Come Back Jonee_ by **Devo** or _Johnny, Are You Queer?_ by **Josie Cotton** ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/8 "2003-07-22T16:54:15Z")
Johnny Angel - Don’t know who sings it, I think it was a Motown Girl Group. ---
**Author:** ![NYR407](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@NYR407](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NYR407)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/9 "2003-07-22T17:01:11Z")
This has already been done. I’ll look for the link. ---
**Author:** ![NYR407](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@NYR407](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NYR407)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/10 "2003-07-22T17:29:39Z")
Here you go: “Songs about Johnny”: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=142624](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=142624) ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/11 "2003-07-22T17:30:00Z")
There’s **Angry Johnny** by Poe. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/12 "2003-07-22T17:38:30Z")
From Jimmy Dean (the Sausage King): _The Ballad of Big John_; . . . and it’s sequel: _Big John’s Cajun Queen_ ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/13 "2003-07-22T17:47:23Z")
Well Only a Lad by Oingo Boingo is mentioned in the other thread. Does the theme from the Dear John TV show count? I do have one good one: Jesus, John, and Elvis by Dick Siegel. I couldn’t find the lyrics online but if I remember correctly it goes: “Jesus, John, and Elvis, Son of God, President and Pelvis, they were all men divine, and they had nice hair.” ---
**Author:** ![gleeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f14d63/32.png) [@gleeb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gleeb)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/14 "2003-07-22T18:16:50Z")
There’s Edith Piaf’s song “Johnny, tu n’es pas un ange.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/15 "2003-07-22T18:59:28Z")
_ **Johnny Johnny Johnny** _ by Shonen Knife, one of the bounciest, most addictive songs I have ever heard. If you’re compiling a Johnny mix tape, you have to include this; it will be different from everything else. _ **Johnny, It’s Downhill From Here** _ by Uncle Bonsai, a song about the one redeeming feature of superachievers, that when they leave their protective environment they fail miserably. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/16 "2003-07-22T21:18:50Z")
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: _Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky_ and \*Tear[i/]. The name Johnny is said repeatedly in the first one at the end of the chorus. In the latter, John is included in the line “say it loud, cos John and Jane would like to know.” Pink Floyd: Not Now John. “_Not now John_, we’ve got to get on with these” etc. Charlie Daniel’s Band: _Devil went Down to Georgia_ “The boy said my name’s Johnny” Tim McGraw: _Don’t Take the Girl_ “Johnny hit his knees and then he prayed." The Eagles: _New Kid in Town_ “Johnny Come Lately, the new kid in town, everybody loves him and you’re still around.” ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/17 "2003-07-22T21:31:23Z")
Uh, “The Ballad of John and Yoko” and Lennon’s self-referential “Hold On.” ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/18 "2003-07-22T21:33:59Z")
[sub] Damn coding![/sub] Anyway, just thought of a couple more for you: Iggy Pop: _Lust for Life_. “Here comes Johnny, in again, with liquor and drugs and a fast machine.” Elvis, Little Richard, or the Beatles, take your pick: _Long Tall Sally_. “Well, long tall Sally, she’s built sweet, she’s got everything that Uncle John needs.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/19 "2003-07-22T21:35:56Z")
“A Girl called Johnny” by The Waterboys ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171/20 "2003-07-22T22:04:48Z")
“John, I’m Only Dancing” - David Bowie “Be Good Johnny” - Men at Work “Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky” - Red Hot Chili iPeppers “Sloop John B.” - Beach Boys “Hurry Up John” - The Idle Race “Uncle John’s Band” - Grateful Dead [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-john-johnny-in-them/190171.md?page=2)