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Janie Jones

This version of Janie Jones was released by The Clash in 1977.

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He’s in love with rock’n’roll woaahh
He’s in love with gettin’ stoned woaahh
He’s in love with Janie Jones
But he don’t like his boring job, no…

An’ he knows what he’s got to do
So he knows he’s gonna have fun with you
You lucky lady!
An’ he knows when the evening comes
When his job is done he’ll be over in his car for you

An’ in the in-tray lots of work
But the boss at the firm always thinks he shirks
But he’s just like everyone, he’s got a Ford Cortina
That just won’t run without fuel
Fill her up, Jacko!

An’ the invoice it don’t quite fit,
There’s no payola in his alphabetical file
This time he’s gonna really tell the boss
Gonna really let him know exactly how he feels
It’s pretty bad!

Let them know – how you feel

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About Lyrics and Janie Jones by The Clash

The lyrics for Janie Jones are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by The Clash. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Janie Jones have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Janie Jones - The Clash and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Janie Jones by The Clash in multiple 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 Janie Jones" means the words set to the music of Janie Jones, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Clash. 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 Janie Jones and the lyrics to Janie Jones are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Clash who came here looking just for the lyrics to Janie Jones, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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