Rockin' Crazy World (Charlie McGettigan)
Rockin'
Crazy World
Words and Music by
Shay Healy &
Charlie McGettigan
Performed by Charlie McGettigan
Bardis
Music.
Release Date 7th
March 2016
Producer/
Director Ed Darragh
Recorded at
SAV by
Gerry Simpson
Download the single :
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/
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(A
Tribute to
Film &
Rock n' Roll Legends of the '50s and '60s)
Rockin’ Crazy World (
Lyrics)
IN THE FIFTIES
TIES THEY WERE CATCHING
STARS
THAT FELL FROM OUT THE
SKY
THERE WERE DOGGIES IN THE WINDOW THEN
THAT ANYONE COULD
BUY
DAVY CROCKETT WITH
HIS COONSKIN
HAT
HE ROAMED THE
WILD FRONTIER
TOM COOLEY HUNG HIS
HEAD DOWN AND HE CRIED
AND WHEN THE PAWNSHOP ON THE CORNER
PUT THE SHUTTERS UP FOR
GOOD
THE
MUSIC IT WAS CHANGING AND NOBODY UNDERSTOOD
TILL THE
SUN CAME OUT IN MEMPHIS
IN A
PAIR OF
BLUE SUEDE
SHOES
THE WHOLE
WORLD WENT ROCK ‘N ROLL
CRAZY
BILL HAYLEY AND HIS COMETS
THEY STARTED ROCKIN’ ROUND THE
CLOCK
WITH A SWIVEL OF HIS PELVIS,
ELVIS DID THE JAILHOUSE ROCK
CHUCK BERRY DID HIS
DUCK WALK
AND HIS JOHNNY B. WAS GOOD
AND TRINI LOPEZ WISHED HE HAD A
HAMMER
LITTLE RICHARD TOLD
MISS MOLLY
MY GOOD GOLLY YOU’RE SO
FINE
C’MON EVERYBODY THAT WAS EDDIE COCHRAN’S
LINE
FRANKIE VALLI AND THE
SEASONS TOLD US WALK LIKE A
MAN
AND
PEOPLE FOUND
RESPECT FOR ARETHA FRANKLIN
JIMI HENDRIX IN A
PURPLE HAZE SET FIRE TO HIS GUITAR
SAM COOKE HE TOOK A BULLET AND WE
LOST A SHINING
STAR
THE
LORD TOOK JANIS EARLY IN A
BIG MERCEDES BENZ
WHILE
OTIS JUST WATCHED THE
TIDE ROLL AWAY
CROSBY STILLS AND
NASH THEY URGED US
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL
AND WE FELT THOSE GOOD VIBRATIONS WHEN
THE BEACH BOYS
CAST THEIR
SPELL
THE
MAMA’S AND THE PAPAS LIVED THE CALIFORNIA
DREAM
WHILE THE MONKEES CAUGHT
THE LAST
TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE
AND WHEN
DYLAN SANG THE
TIMES THEY RE A-CHANGING
HE WAS RIGHT BUT WHAT WAS COMIN NO ONE
KNEW FOR
SURE
AND THE
SONGS THAT WE WERE SINGING
WE’RE STILL SINGING THEM TONIGHT
ROCKIN’ PNEUMONIA NEVER FOUND THE
CURE
THE `BIG O
SAW A PRETY
WOMAN WALKIN
DOWN THE STREET
JACKIE WILSON HE AGREED WITH HIM SAYING SHE’S SO REET PETITE THAT’LL BE THE
DAY WHEN POOR
BUDDY HOLLY LEFT TOO
SOON WHILE THE EVERLY’S WAVED THEY’RE
LOVE BYE BYE
AND WHEN THE BEATLES AND THE
ROLLING STONES CAME ROCKI’N WITH SOME
STYLE IT
WASN’T LONG BEFORE THEY HAD THE WHOLE WORLD GOING WILD AND THE STONES GOT SATISFACTION AS THE
BAD BOYS ON THE BLOCK
WHILE THE BEATLES THEY HUNG OUT WITH THE MAHARISHI
Ah Ah Ah Ah…
AND WHEN DYLAN SANG THE TIMES THEY RE A-CHANGING HE WAS RIGHT BUT WHAT WAS COMIN NO ONE KNEW FOR SURE
AND THE SONGS THAT WE WERE SINGING
THEY’RE STILL SINGING THEM TONIGHT
ROCKIN’ PNEUMONIA NEVER FOUND THE
CURE
I
THINK ABOUT THOSE CRAZY
DAYS
THOSE DAYS OF ROCK ‘N ROLL THERE WAS
R & B THE LOVE WAS
FREE THERE WAS MUSIC IN THEIR SOULS THOUGH TIMES HAVE CHANGED BEEN REARRANGED THE MUSIC STILL ENDURES AS WE
GROW OLD IT’S ALL THAT WE REMEMBER EACH SONG BRINGS
BACK A
MEMORY OF THE CRAZY TIMES WE HAD
AND THROUGH IT ALL WE STILL RECALL
THE GOOD TIMES AND THE BAD
WE NEVER CAN RELIVE THOSE DAYS
THEY’RE JUST A MEMORY
THEY’LL NEVER
FADE AWAY
THEY’LL
LIVE FOREVER
Shay Healy / Charlie McGettigan Bardis Music c.c. 2016
A Writersbox
Production. With thanks to Ken O'Mahony &
Dave Darragh at
http://www.horsinaround.ie/ TV Productions