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(sung by johnny thunder and chorus) |
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See johnny thunder sitting on his motorbike |
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Riding along the highway, |
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Rock and roll songs from the nineteen-fifties |
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Buzzing around in his brain. |
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Johnny thunder he's one of the original bebop generation |
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And he's got no time for complicated music or too much sophistication. |
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He's one of the survivors, |
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The motorbike riders. |
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You ought to see johnny thunder riding down the highway |
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One of the rock and roll survivors, |
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Twelve bars flowing through his brain. |
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He digs jerry lee lewis, dion and the belmonts, |
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And johnny & the hurricanes. |
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He plays hound dog, oh boy, and great balls of fire |
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And boppin' at the high school hop. |
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And he's got no time for phonies or posers |
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'cos they don't know how to reel and rock. |
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And he plays little egypt and ooh poo pah doo, |
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And he plays poison ivy and blue suede shoes, |
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The hollywood argyles, danny & the juniors, |
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Dion & the belmonts, johnny & the hurricanes. |
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He's one of the survivors, |
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The boppers and the jivers, |
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Yeah and he rocks all day. |
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Johnny & the hurricanes, johnny & the hurricanes. |
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Got my freedom riding along the freeway. |
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I ride a hundred miles an hour but i don't mess up my d.a. |
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Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock 'n' roll. |
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You can't stop rock 'n' rollin' music play. |
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(repeat last two lines) |
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Feel those vibrations flow in my brain. |
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Got my freedom riding down the highway, |
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Keeps me sane, feel alive, |
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I'm one of the survivors. |
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Feel all right. |
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First gear, second gear, third gear, fourth gear, all right. |
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Old johnny thunder looks a little overweight, |
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And his sideburns are turning grey. |
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But he still likes to bebop, boogie and jive |
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To his worn out seventy-eights. |
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Johnny thunder. |
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He's alright. |
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He's one of the survivors, |
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Twelve bars flowing through his brain, |
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Jerry lee lewis, dion & the belmonts, |
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Johnny & the hurricanes, johnny & the hurricanes. |
