Lyrics to
Jackknife Johnny

This version of Jackknife Johnny was released by Alice Cooper in 1978.

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From his army confessions of his military days
You still carry the shrapnel you’re shell-shocked and dazed
Dear Johnny have you lost your way
Or like denim and leather are you faded and frayed

Institute lackies with hot bourbon breath
White coats and needles Johnny like to scare you to death
Dear Johnny do you feel your best
When you’re strung out at night on your morphine and meth

Jackknife Johnny you’re a floor moppin’ flunkie
Tool of a dagger’s drawn world
Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you
For bringing home that V.C. girl
Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world

From the tone deaf hearing of the draft board game
You were washing cars down in Dallas when the holocaust came
Dear Johnny your excuse was lame
All your friends sleep in boxes while you sleep in chains

Jackknife Johnny you’re a bad jungle monkey
Tool of a dagger’s drawn world
Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you
For bringing home that V.C. girl
Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world

Jackknife Johnny you’re a floor moppin’ flunkie
Tool of a dagger’s drawn world
Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you
For bringing home that V.C. girl
Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world

Jackknife Johnny you’re a bad jungle monkey
Tool of a dagger’s drawn world
Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you
For bringing home that V.C. girl
Jackknife Johnny

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Alice Cooper has released many songs over the years besides Jackknife Johnny. Alice Cooper released songs from 1969 to 2008 spanning across albums like Pretties For You, Freak Out Song, Easy Action, Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out, Muscle Of Love, Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome To My Nightmare, Alice Cooper Goes To Hell, Lace And Whiskey, From The Inside, Flush The Fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catches Skin, Da Da, Constrictor, Raise Your Fist And Yell, Trash, Hey Stoopid, The Last Temptation, A Fistful Of Alice, Brutal Planet, Dragon Town, The Eyes Of Alice Cooper, Dirty Diamonds, and Along Came A Spider. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Alice Cooper.

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About Lyrics and Jackknife Johnny by Alice Cooper

The lyrics to Jackknife Johnny are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Alice Cooper in 1978. Elements of the lyrics to Jackknife Johnny are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Alice Cooper and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Jackknife Johnny back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Jackknife Johnny by Alice Cooper in a number of ways. 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 Jackknife Johnny" means the words set to the music of Jackknife Johnny, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Alice Cooper. 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 Jackknife Johnny and the lyrics to Jackknife Johnny are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Alice Cooper who came here looking just for the lyrics to Jackknife Johnny, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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