by the way, would you have the lyrics of the song marianne?? i really need those :c
Hey! The lyrics aren’t posted anywhere that I’m aware of online, but I transcribed them previously? thankfully its not a hard song to understand~ I hope this helps!
This is the story of Jimmy Junior Johnson
the man who knew only one word,
and wouldnt you know,
dont it always seem to go,
that word is the name of a girl?
She cant hear him now ‘cause hes locked away,
but sometimes at night the curtains sway
and seem to say
“Marianne”
Jimmy Junior Johnson
what you’d call a simple man,
lived out of the back of an old camper van
that the state hadnt licensed him to drive,
so he’d ride at night with headlights low
find a new part of the city to take it slow,
just scrapin by
the night that junior saw marianne,
would be the last time he moved that old camper van,
‘cause love has a knack for stoppin you in your tracks
well he’d seen her walk by,
she was sweeter than the stars in sky on the very night they met,
though junior couldnt talk,
he knew if he let her walk by
he’d never forget a face like hers,
so he summoned his courage,
caught her in the lane,
used a handshake to convey
what his tongue couldnt say,
and this girl was sweet,
she didnt miss a beat
she smiled and told junior her name
CHORUS
Marianne,
oh oh, oh
Marianne
Marianne,
yeah yeah,
oh oh,
marianne
oh yeah
well weeks pass on
and that van had been there so long
its like part of the street,
marianne walked by on weekday nights
and and junior gestured
and she would speak to him
for a quarter of an hour,
just tryin to be kind,
what she didnt know
was that junior was just about blind with love for her,
a simple mans heart is truest love you can hope to find
well one night marianne,
she didnt come by,
and the next night and the next
and junior didnt know why
but he was crying and weeping by the end of the week,
till one night he went out to find her,
and he knew where she lived ‘cause he followed behind her
when she didnt know he was there,
he gets to the walk at the foot of her stairs
and hes screaming and moaning like a beast in a cage
and he flies of the handle and into a rage
breaking bottles and beer cans against her front door,
and the street light was shattered
and you could hear junior roar
and the sound of something around in this throat,
until the neighbors,
they couldnt take it no more,
and in the flashing blue lights junior found the word he was looking for
CHORUS
Well mariannes okay
she just took her vacation pay
for a little get away,
she cant believe what the neighbors say about jimmy junior
and what he did when she was away
and junior sleeps in a room
with a pillow and a bed
and a window that looks out on a willow tree
where he spends the long days,
with just his thoughts in his head
and week after week he still donesnt speak
at night when he sleeps he dreams
and the walls hear him so sweet,
hear him whisper the word
marianne
oh, oh oh, marianne
marianne, oh marianne
