CHORUS
Raise your glasses! Hold them high!
Tell all your friends and don’t you lie!
Coz the coppers said the bodies were never found
When Johnny met the Devil in Camden Town.
Johnny came to London from Colchester
With a head full of noise and a shit guitar
But of all the stops on the underground
Johnny came up at Camden Town
Johnny picked a pub and he sat at the bar
And a Man came over looking at his guitar
Now he had been a handsome one in his time
with jet black lines around his yes
He said ‘Johnny do you know my name?
I can give you riches, I can give you fame.
But first we’re gonna play this little game:
line the glasses on the bar, the first round is on you, son’
CHORUS
Raise your glasses! Hold them high!
Tell all your friends and don’t you lie!
Coz the coppers said the bodies were never found
When Johnny met the Devil in Camden Town.
Well 1,2,3 the glasses went down
and nobody dared to make a sound
4,5,6 the crown started leaving
As Johnny and the Devil both started steaming
The Devil said ‘who do you think you are?
Just another pretty boy with a shit guitar!
Every last one of you leaves here, pal,
floating head down in the canal’
Johnny just laughed he said ‘in my home town,
There’s nothing else to do but drink until you drown.’
The Devil said ‘Fine!’ His eyes were wide.
‘Line the glasses on the bar, let’s have another round, son!’
CHORUS
Raise your glasses! Hold them high!
Tell all your friends and don’t you lie!
Coz the coppers said the bodies were never found
When Johnny met the Devil in Camden Town.
Well the Devil slurred his words with a sibilant hiss
And Johnny lit a cigarette but Johnny missed
And the wood of the bar was split in two
But every time the Devil drank, Johnny drank too
And the Devil rose up! The Devil rose high!
Said ‘I coulda made it, if I tried!;
The Devil waved a gun around as he sang
Johnny made a finger gun and Johnny said ‘bang’
No-one had ever lasted this long
Johnny did clap at the Devil’s song
The Devil said ‘You’ll never be more than you are:
Just another old man sitting at the same bar.’
Well Johnny said ‘Devil now you’re here too,
So I guess I’m the same as you.’
And the Devil cried out, the roof fell down
And Johnny picked up two more glasses
‘let’s have one more round, son!’
CHORUS
Raise your glasses! Hold them high!
Tell all your friends and don’t you lie!
Coz the coppers said the bodies were never found
When Johnny met the Devil in Camden Town.
When Johnny met the Devil in Camden Town.
When Johnny met the Devil in Camden Town.
credits
from Bedrooms And Basements,
released February 19, 2010
Written By: Andrew Clarke
Produced By: Sean O'Brien, Sam Morgan
Performed By: Andrew Clarke, Sean O'Brien, Sam Morgan
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This is just HILARIOUS
Everyone on it gave such an AMAZING performance
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