English Civil War

Album: Give 'Em Enough Rope (1979)
Charted: 25
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  • When Johnny comes
    Marching home again
    He's coming by bus or underground
    A woman's eye will shed a tear
    To see his face so beaten in fear
    An' it was just around the corner in the English civil war

    It was still at the stage of clubs and fists
    When that well-known face got beaten to bits
    Your face was blue in the light of the screen
    As we watched the speech of an animal scream
    The new party army was marching right over our heads

    Alright

    There you are, ha ha, I told you so
    Says everybody that we know
    But who hid a radio under the stairs
    An' who got caught out on their unawares?
    When that new party army came marching right up the stairs

    When johnny comes marching home again
    Nobody understands it can happen again
    The sun is shining an' the kids are shouting loud
    But you gotta know it's shining through a crack in the cloud
    And the shadows keep falling when Johnny comes marching home Writer/s: JOE STRUMMER, MICK JONES, PAUL SIMONON, TOPPER HEADON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

  • AnonymousI'd suggest the New Party Army was not referencing the Cromwell led Civil War faction but Oswald Mosley's New Party' precursor to the Britis Union of Fascists.
  • Zabadak from London, EnglandAdam Faith had a hit in the UK in 1960 with the original lyrics
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