Boyfriend John

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Paul McCartney playing a Tubon, 1966.

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I Don’t Know (Johnny, Johnny) 1960

I’ve listened to this a million times and I think I finally have the lyrics down as best as possible.

Paul: Well now, Johnny Johnny, oh Johnny Johnny, Oh Johnny Johnny, Johnny Johnny, Johnny Johnny, oh lord, Johnny boy.

How we gonna tell ‘em? Why don’t we go and keep on home?

Well, well, Johnny, my boy.

Why don’t we go and tell 'em what we’re after? Johnny, ooooh Johnny Johnny boy, tell them the message of ours.

Oh, Johnny, well, you got me, will you be my boy? Hey, take it, John. Ha!

John: Oh little boy, packing my shoes, as if I’m not gonna lose you.

That’s right, hon. I’m gonna see my sister soon.

She don’t see me, I don’t know really what I’m gonna do. I don’t know what I’m gonna do. Well!

Paul: Well, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny

When I call you Johnny boy

Well Johnny John, oooh Johnny, when I’m calling you

Well, I don’t know what I’m gonna tell 'em. That’s why I’m asking my best boy.

Will you tell me, will you tell me?

John: Well I’ll tell the fellas that I’d travel with you (or “i do love you”???)

Oh when you pull I shouldn’t be back, be back this time. I don’t know if that’s good.

Paul: I don’t know what I’m gonna do when I tell my father ya want me, Johnny.

John: I love you, Paul! Aaaaahh

Paul: You think you’d better leave, you think you follow me. Aaah Ah, we better leave right now. I’m gonna leave.

John: Take the next bus out of town, it won’t let nobody down.

Both: Well, we’re gonna leave together, get out of town, leave together.

Paul: Won’t let you down. Get out, get out. Oh, oh, oh, oh, John x10, oh

John: I don’t know x6, know, know, know, know

Well, I’ll just survive. Turn your head from somebody else’s kiss. I’m gonna leave, I’m leaving with you. Yeah, someday x4

Paul: Well, I’ll tell ya (John: Yeeaaaaah)

Well, I’ll tell ya, you’re all I want, you’re all I want, you’re all I want

Let’s go get out of town. Aaah, oooooh, oh, we gotta move far, far away from this old town.

Move on over, leave. We’re going over, across the stream.

No one will know who we are, are. We gotta go away. We’re gonna go far away. Well, we’re gonna go far away. x2

John: Well, go, go, go, go. Oooooh

Both: Hey, hey, hey x10

John: I’m gonna leave. We’re gonna leave that town

Both: We’re gonna leeeeave

Paul: *laughs adorably*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN WINSTON LENNON!

☆ born October 9, 1940. Liverpool, UK.

"I am just some guy who did . . . whatever. Always see me as me. I was always me, all the way through it. . . .

I love motels ’cause there is no reception area. I like hotels too. But I like motels as well. Just invisible places where you check in with a credit card, in the middle of the night, anywhere. Some guys in taxis now, old guys, they recognize the voice is English, but they don’t recognize me. They don’t know who the hell I am. They say, “Oh, you’re English! I was over there in the war . . .” And they go on and on . . . and tell me amazing life stories. . . .

They ask, “what do you do?” and I say, “I’m a musician,” and they say, “Are you doing alright?” “Yeah, I am . . .”

INTERVIEW to Frances Schoenberger, March 1975.

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