Lyrics to
Johnny Guitar

This version of Johnny Guitar was released by The Runaways in 1977.

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I got myself a bad lover
His name is Johnny Guitar lookout

Go for it Johnny
All night long
Go for it Johnny
That’s where I’m coming from

My fingers roll his body
Making him scream
And I’m lost in a metal dream

Go for it Johnny
All night long
Go for it Johnny
That’s where I’m coming from

Hot hands on his wet neck
I’m a hunter he’s my gun

Go for it Johnny
All night long
Go for it Johnny
That’s where I’m coming from

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The Runaways has released many songs over the years besides Johnny Guitar. The Runaways released songs from 1976 to 1980 spanning across albums like The Runaways, Live In Japan, Queens Of Noise, Waitin' For The Night, And Now The Runaways, and Flaming Schoolgirls. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Runaways.

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About Lyrics and Johnny Guitar by The Runaways

The lyrics for Johnny Guitar are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by The Runaways. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Johnny Guitar 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 Johnny Guitar - The Runaways 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 Johnny Guitar by The Runaways 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 Johnny Guitar" means the words set to the music of Johnny Guitar, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Runaways. 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 Johnny Guitar and the lyrics to Johnny Guitar are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Runaways who came here looking just for the lyrics to Johnny Guitar, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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