Song | Johnny |
Artist | Paddy Goes to Holyhead |
Album | Hooray |
A little boy lived in the shadow of an iron might | |
The gates were opened in the morning closed again at night | |
He was playing hunt for treasure in the lonely street | |
And the treasure he looked for was something for to eat | |
His clothes were torn, his face was dirty, he was quite forlorn | |
The trucks that gathered up his parents came for them at dawn | |
[chorus:] | |
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny - sing your song | |
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, sing your song | |
There was song and there was dancing a long long time ago | |
Now there′s terror in the waiting for tomorrow | |
[chorus] | |
Hunger, sickness fear and hoping lurk behind the gate | |
Sometimes laughter sometimes crying love and sometimes hate | |
Johnny sang his song all day to cover up his fear | |
Johnny sang his song and hoped the outside world would hear | |
[chorus] |
A little boy lived in the shadow of an iron might | |
The gates were opened in the morning closed again at night | |
He was playing hunt for treasure in the lonely street | |
And the treasure he looked for was something for to eat | |
His clothes were torn, his face was dirty, he was quite forlorn | |
The trucks that gathered up his parents came for them at dawn | |
chorus: | |
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny sing your song | |
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, sing your song | |
There was song and there was dancing a long long time ago | |
Now there s terror in the waiting for tomorrow | |
chorus | |
Hunger, sickness fear and hoping lurk behind the gate | |
Sometimes laughter sometimes crying love and sometimes hate | |
Johnny sang his song all day to cover up his fear | |
Johnny sang his song and hoped the outside world would hear | |
chorus |