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 Beatlemania
One 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," he says
"If we′ve got to have a leader, I′m him"
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 things over, 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 group
The bomb, nuclear disarmament?
Well, like everyone else, I don′t want to end up in the pestering heat
But I don't stay up nights worrying
I′m preoccupied with life, not that

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′
It was just a joke as far as I was concerned
But don′t think I'm proud of it
I wouldn′t want anyone to follow my example"

Now Lennon, in our Beatle biography in 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
He jocularly replied, "No, who's gonna help you with a thing like that?"
As for the offbeat style John employed within its pages
He candidly says, "Well, that's the way I think"
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 with John since the days
And the not-too-successful Nerk Twins
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's new-found fame
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"
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