Johnny Be Bad - Chuck Kerry - By Ted Lang - Price of Liberty
12/03/08
Johnny Be Bad - Chuck Kerry
By Ted Lang © 2004
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August 06 , 2004

It’s beginning to look a lot like déjà vu all over again! Immediately preceding crash and burn Bush, we had a chief executive that would be King Curtis on the saxophone. As Chuck Berry offered, when in pursuit of hearin’ some of that “Rock & Roll Music,” we might want to take a ride over cross the tracks, and hear his man on the wailin’ sax. Slick Willy was good at blowin’ his horn while M… nah; let’s not go there!

But now we have John Kerry, walkin’ on stage with a cherry-red double-cutaway Gibson 335. Undoubtedly, this guy knows his guitars – it’s the brand and model made famous by the great Chuck Berry. And one of the tunes I just had to learn was Johnny B. Goode. The base strings just bounce out a neat rhythm-keepin’ beat that can keep any drummer under control, and using a permanent index finger barre across the sixth fret [A#], you play rhythm, beat-keepin’ bass, and do the lead when it’s time.

I was definitely an ABB libber [Anybody But Bush], but after reading Cockburn and St. Clair , it looks like chucking Kerry is the lesser of two evils, even if it means looking for weapons of mass distraction in all the wrong places for another four years. As we strike up the band, maybe we can get John to duck-walk himself outta here!

Deep down in Lose – see – ana donning plain blue jeans,

Way back’n the big tent ‘hind nets and screens,

From a great big mansion comes a choice so sad,

His name is John Kerry and this pick’s real bad,

He never learned to shoot or fight so well

But he could play a big crowd just like ringin’ a bell.

Chorus

Go, go! [Guitar] Da—dum—de—dum—de—dumb Go Johnny go!

Go! Da—dum—de—dum—de—dumb Go Johnny go!

Go! Da—dum—de—dum—de—dumb Go Johnny go!

Go! Da—dum—de—dum—de—dumb Go Johnny go

Go! Da—dum—de—dum—de—dum—de—dum—de—dumb

Johnny Be Bad! !

He used to play guitar as a party hack,

Go shake the peoples’ hands by the railroad track,

Old politicians see’m plyin’ his trade,

Playin’ with the funding that the campaign made,

People passin’ by would stop and say,

Oh my, the country just can’t go this way!

Chorus

Guitar Lead

His mother told him someday you’d be a man,

And you will be the leader of this once great land,

Many people dyin’ in the wars around,

Will only find relief when they’re in the ground,

Maybe your future will hang on a chad,

But John F. Kerry, you be bad.

Chorus and finish

Sorry Mr. Berry! And I can’t really hold a barre chord that long anymore – arthritis is taking out my left hand. I never much liked the left anyway! Hey Nugent! You out there? Maybe you can help an old ax man out!

Theodore E. Lang>>

© THEODORE E. LANG 7/12/04 All rights reserved

Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer.

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