Johnny B's Good (Show Then He's Good)

Parody of "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry
Parody Lyrics by Jeff James (the Parodud)
In ReVerse and setting music back about fifty years . . .
(Matthew 3, Mark 6, Luke 3, sorry CB ;-)

Way out there was a man who told the Sadducees,
"They act just like a brood, from coming wrath should flee."
Then said-uh John Baptist, "Where's repentance fruit?
And if-uh one tree's spoiled, hey, the chopping's at root!"
He ever, ever warned - not wheat, but chaff would melt,
And he would say to bitter guys, "Repent or else!"

CHORUS:
Go, go.
Bold Johnny, go, go.
Bold Johnny, go, go.
Bold Johnny, go, go.
Go, go. Show then He's good.

He used a girdle of leather, camel skin on back.
Locusts and sweet honey, aye, his fav'rite snack.
Oh, the Pharisees used to needle. Fitly, John berates,
Saying that they didn't need the bribes they craved.
Jesus was baptized (John thought it's lame).
Oh, why? But little John, he so obeyed.

Chorus

His mama's told that one day, as God sees, John's grand,
But he would be like Peter ('nother martyred man).
Galilean ones then had Johnny bound.
They speared this faithful Jew then, when a banquet's 'round.
Maybe one day, we'd say what he did write,
Saying, "Johnny B. should delight."

Chorus
Note: Jeff James has written several Parodeities over the years. He has been gracious enough to rewrite many of the parodies appearing in the Parodeity section on Webster. He's done a great job improving some of these tunes in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. I'm absolutely thrilled that he has taken it upon himself to make these improvements; I had hoped when I put all my work in the public domain that it would encourage some people to make these types of modifications to the Parodeities to improve them. It is exciting to see someone doing this kind of work; I hope that Jeff's excellent work will encourage others to write new parodies or "ReVerse" existing parodeities. -- Randy Hyde

BTW, if you don't understand the "Paro-Dud" moniker, visit ApologetiX' site and check out the name of Karl Messner's production company; then you'll probably get the play on words.
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