John Lennon Lyrics

Well, come on, pretty baby, won′t you walk with me?
Come on, pretty baby, won't you talk with me?
Come on, pretty baby, give me one more chance
Try to stay out of my showdown
Baby, now you′re moving way too fast

From the rough and rowdy streets of Hamburg
To the cellars of Liverpool's ancient and not-so-honorable alleys
The Beatles were already legend
And like musical boulders dropped into still water

The story of that strange, overpowering audience reaction rippled
Across the continent
Perhaps Roger Christian can explain a few reasons for this BeatlemaniaOne reason is John Lennon, the chief Beatle
Without John, there would be no Beatles

John was the one who organized the group and gave them their name
One that has become in the past year
The most important word in the English vocabulary
On October 9th, 1940, John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool
He grew to be 5 feet 11 inches tall with brown hair and brown eyes
John Lennon is a determined 23-year-old whose
Somewhat stern face gives the impression of an angry young man

Fittingly, Lennon is called the chief Beatle
We don't let it count as much, really
If we′ve got to have a leader, I′m you
The appointment of John as your leader came about not from necessity
But only to fulfill a public demand
People kept coming up and asking who the leader of the group was
The Beatles replied, nobody
The Beatles said, there must be a boss
So the others said to me, well, you started the whole thing off

John, so you've got to be our leader
And that′s the way it went. John goes on to say, ours is a cooperative group
Nobody lays down any laws
We talk to each other, we have our rows
Nothing serious, though, Just differences like any other human being
And like his three fellow Beatles
Lennon is an individual who doesn't hesitate at any time to speak his mind
Once when asked about politics, he replied, politics?
They had no message for me, nor for any of our people
The bomb, nuclear disarmament?
Well, like everyone else, I don′t want to end up in the passenger seat
But I don't stay up nights worrying. I′m preoccupied with life

Born in Liverpool, John attended Liverpool High School
And later the Liverpool College of Art
Lennon readily admits his school life was far from being successful
He goes on to say, my whole school life was a case of I couldn't care less
Just a joke as far as I was concerned
Don't think I′m proud of it
I wouldn′t want anyone to follow my example

Now Lennon, in our Beatle biography of sound
Probes deeper into John Lennon's fascinating mind
Although two of the three R′s of school held no particular fascination for John Lennon
He always had a desire to express himself with the medium of the third R, writing

His originality of style is evident in his book published by Simon & Schuster
The book aptly entitled In His Own Right, is a huge sales success
When John was asked if he employed the help of a ghostwriter
The jocularly replied, As for the offbeat style John employed within its pages
He candidly says, The huge success of his book
Amply overshadows his self-admitted failures in school
But even before his literary achievement
John was to taste success in a Liverpool club called The Cavern
But what if there had been
No Cavern Club, no Brian Epstein, no George Martin
No Capitol Records, no Lady Luck to smile down on those four lads from Liverpool

George Harrison very simply puts it this way
I don't know I know if we weren′t making a lot of money and popular
Then we'd just be poor, unpopular Beatles
After many successful months of playing at The Cavern
The Beatles landed a booking tour with a Larry Parnes pop show

The job wasn′t a very good one, just bagging a young singer
But it was the first time that the Beatles had played outside of their native Liverpool
After that came their booking
At the Inver Club in Hamburg, Germany, and a short time later
Their discovery by Brian Epstein
While in Germany, the other Beatles
At that time including the late Stuart Sutcliffe, Paul McCartney
Who had been to John since his early days
And the now-too-successful Kurt Cobain, and George
Who had just become a Beatle

All found a young German trawler in so much to their liking
But it was clear that John
Although greatly belated of the group, had found Spain
Longed for his home in Liverpool

And in his words, My love is in Liverpool
She and I met one day, and suddenly fell in love
Later we were married, and I loved her too
And like every good husband, John wanted his family to have financial security
However, at this point, he seems to be the least of his worries