Lyrics to
Hooky Jo

This version of Hooky Jo was released by Rick Springfield in 1972.

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Hooky high hooky Jo
I need you so
Hooky bye hooky go
Where I don’t know
Looky high looky low
Where can you be
Hooky high hooky Jo
I need your company

And my sergeant said
The war is over son
It doesn’t really matter
That the north has won.

So I packed my bags
And I gave back my gun
I turned and headed home
With the fighting done

Hooky high hooky Jo
I need you so
Hooky by hooky go
Where I don’t know
Looky high looky low
Where can you be
Hooky high hooky Jo
I need your company

Hooky Jo and me
We planned to make a start
But the war came between us
And we fell apart

Now this old gray coat is getting mighty thin
But I’ll keep on looking for her
Till we meet again

Hooky high hooky Jo
I need you so
Hooky by hooky go
Where I don’t know
Looky high looky low
Where can you be
Hooky high hooky Jo
I need your company

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About Lyrics and Hooky Jo by Rick Springfield

The lyrics for Hooky Jo are defined as the words making up the song released by Rick Springfield in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Hooky Jo have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Rick Springfield and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Hooky Jo by Rick Springfield if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Hooky Jo" means the words set to the music of Hooky Jo, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rick Springfield. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Hooky Jo and the lyrics to Hooky Jo are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rick Springfield who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hooky Jo, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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