Album: The Misfits (1986)

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• President's bullet-ridden body in the street
  Ride, Johnny ride
  Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete
  Ride, Johnny ride
  
  Johnny's wife is floundering
  Johnny's wife is scared
  Run, Jackie run
  
  Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead
  Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head
  Texas is the reason that the president's dead
  You gotta suck, suck, Jackie suck
  
  President's bullet-ridden body in the street
  Ride, Johnny ride
  Kennedy's shattered head hits concrete
  Ride, Johnny ride
  
  Texas is an outrage when your husband is dead
  Texas is an outrage when they pick up his head
  Texas is the reason that the president's dead
  You gotta suck, suck, Jackie suck
  
  Arise Jackie O, Jonathon of Kennedy
  Well, arise and be shot down
  The dirt's gonna be your dessert
  My cum be your life source
  And the only way to get it
  Is to suck or fuck
  Or be poor and devoid
  And masturbate me, masturbate me
  Then slurp it from your palm
  Like a dry desert soaking up rain
  Soaking up sun
  Like a dry desert soaking up rain
  Soaking up sun
  Writer/s: GLEN DANZIG
  Publisher: REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Comments: 5

• Bryan from Los Angeles, CaThis song is calling out Kennedy's widow as a whore who married Aristotle Onassis simply for his money. It's got nothing to do with the assassination.
• Dougi from Massachusetts, MaThe second half of the song, begining with the line "Arise Jackie-O", is a reference to her name after she married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. "Jackie-O" as would be affectionately referred to by the press until her death in '94.
  "It's about Jackie being "raped" by the system."?
  No, It's about her accepting the proposal of another wealthy and powerful man to protect her. And it's Danzigs interpretation of what that relationship must have been like. "My cum be your life source and the only way to get it is to suck or f--k or be poor and devoid..."
• Elliot from Ny, NyTo say that this song is just a "perverted commentary on the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy" is incredibly closed minded. It's obviously about the supposed assassination conspiracy by Texas Conservatives to get Lyndon B Johnson into office.("Texas is the reason") The end of the song (the part with sex)is a metaphor. Something you would recognize if you passed 7th grade English. Its about Jackie being "raped" by the system. The system that has stolen her husband and is now going to use and abuse her.
• Bmg from Detroit, MiGlenn Danzig clearly loves Marlyn Monroe, his first solo record is about her in addition to the band being named after her last film. According to the lyrics of that record, "Who Killed Marilyn?", he believes she was murdered by the Kennedy clan. This is something he cannot forgive, for Marilyn was the icon of the mysterious and beguiling yet tragically misunderstood. So he isn't one of the people disillusioned by JFK's assassination, and in classic punk fashion, he sure is glad that you are. But at the same time, he wants to see the Kennedy's suffer. So in playing with this iconic American moment Glenn equates the famous Zapruder film image of the back of JFK's flying off, looking like it's exploding, with his own climax, to be delivered by Jackie-O. Shocking now, but imagine on its release in 1978! A revenge fantasy.
  
• Dylan from Olmsted Falls, United StatesMessed up, but good song:)

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