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Correlation between Billy Brown and Holy Johnny?


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Can I add another song to this whole scenario? Lol, How about Lollipop? There's a girl next door in both, and the context of the lyrics when she's metioned are pretty similar.

 

Lollipop

Take a look at the girl next door

She's a player and a downright bore

Jesus loves her but she wants more

Oh, bad girls get you down.

 

Holy Johnny

He fell for the girl next door

Johnny she said Johnny I can't be with you

You're pretty but you're also a bore

Finding love was not so easy

Cause people thought that he was too peculiar

So what was left for poor old Johnny

At least he found out that Jesus loves ya

 

I think there might be something there.. not quite sure what.

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Can I add another song to this whole scenario? Lol, How about Lollipop? There's a girl next door in both, and the context of the lyrics when she's metioned are pretty similar.

 

Lollipop

Take a look at the girl next door

She's a player and a downright bore

Jesus loves her but she wants more

Oh, bad girls get you down.

 

Holy Johnny

He fell for the girl next door

Johnny she said Johnny I can't be with you

You're pretty but you're also a bore

Finding love was not so easy

Cause people thought that he was too peculiar

So what was left for poor old Johnny

At least he found out that Jesus loves ya

 

I think there might be something there.. not quite sure what.

I've noticed those similar words/phrases in his songs before, but I've never really thought about it actually meaning anything. It's a very interesting idea!

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Very interesting.

 

Maybe he was having trouble coming up with rhyming words? :D Nah, I don't know.

 

I don't really see a connection, honestly. I mean, HJ, BB and Lollipop all have similar scenarios and sexual themes, but I'm not sure that they are interrelated.

 

As far as HJ and BB go, Billy Brown seemed to be an older guy (I always pictured him at LEAST 30), and Holy Johnny is still very young. At 24, you typically wouldn't have 2 kids, a dog and a cautionary wife. That suggests that he is more settled in with this typical suburban "family" lifestyle. Johnny, on the other hand, seems to be a character who has spent most of his young adulthood sleeping around, then he found God and is now "Holy."

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