Lyrics to
It’s Johnny’s Birthday

This version of It’S Johnny’S Birthday was released by George Harrison in 1970.

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It’s Johnny’s birthday
It’s Johnny’s birthday
And we would like to wish him all the very best
It’s Johnny’s birthday
It’s Johnny’s birthday
And it’s so nice to have you back to be our guest

At Johnny’s birthday
At Johnny’s birthday
We’d like to wish you all what you would wish yourself
On Johnny’s birthday
It’s Johnny’s birthday
And it’s so good to have you back from off the shelf
And it’s so good to have…
You back from off the shelf…

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About Lyrics and It’S Johnny’S Birthday by George Harrison

The lyrics to It’S Johnny’S Birthday are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that George Harrison used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to It’S Johnny’S Birthday have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only George Harrison and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to It’S Johnny’S Birthday by George Harrison. 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 It’S Johnny’S Birthday" means the words set to the music of It’S Johnny’S Birthday, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by George Harrison. 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 It’S Johnny’S Birthday and the lyrics to It’S Johnny’S Birthday are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of George Harrison who came here looking just for the lyrics to It’S Johnny’S Birthday, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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