Cleveland Rocks

Album: You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic (1979)
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  • All this energy callin' me
    Back where it comes from
    It's such a crude attitude
    It's back where it belongs

    All the little kids goin' up on the skits go
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Jumpin' Jane Jean, and moonin' James Dean go
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!

    Momma knows, but she don't care,she's got her worries too
    Seven kids, and a phony affair, and the rent is due

    All the little chicks with the crimson lips go
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Livin' in sin with a safety pin goin'
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!

    I got some records from World War II
    I play 'em just like me grand dad do

    He was a rocker, and I am too
    Now Cleveland rocks, Now Cleveland rocks
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks! Cleveland rocks!
    Cleveland rocks!
    OHIO
    Writer/s: IAN HUNTER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • DavehHunter was lying. After "London Rocks" was released and "Overnight Angels" was a disaster, he got new management...whose office happened to be located in Cleveland. At the time, WMMS could break new albums. So at the suggestion of management, Hunter changed the song's lyrics to pander to WMMS. And you got "Cleveland Rocks."
  • Pete from Cleveland HeightsAlan's cremains were interred at Lake View Cemetery, in Cleveland Heights, OH, in 2016 (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-alan-freed)
  • Deethewriter from Saint Petersburg, Russia FederationMore Songs About Cleveland, Ohio

    The Heart of Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis & The News
    Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot
    My Town by Michael Stanley
    Lookout Cleveland by The Band
    Drunk On The Moon by Tom Waits
    Oh My Sweet Carolina by Ryan Adams
    Pancho and Lefty by Townes Van Zandt
    Going To Cleveland by Mountain Goats
    Cleveland Polka by Frankie Yankovic
  • Deethewriter from Saint Petersburg, Russia FederationMore Songs About Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland Rocks by Ian Hunter, also The Presidents of The United States of America
    The Heart of Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis & The News
    Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot
    My Town by Michael Stanley
    Lookout Cleveland by The Band
    Drunk On The Moon by Tom Waits
    Oh My Sweet Carolina by Ryan Adams
    Pancho and Lefty by Townes Van Zandt
    Going To Cleveland by Mountain Goats
    Cleveland Polka by Frankie Yankovic
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