Name: Johnny B. Blank
Duration: 3 min 54 s
Channel: Jack E Morris
Description: "Johnny B. Blank" is a song by The OverSoul. Sell Johnny sell!

Johnny B. Blank

The OverSoul

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The OverSoul

Fueled by the songs of New Orleans indie songwriter Jack Morris, The OverSoul delivers acoustic gems in the alternative, folk rock, and country genres.

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Over-Soul"

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic General

Author

Jack E Morris

Rights

1999

Uploaded

October 03, 2018

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:54

Story behind the song

Demo by Walton Record Productions

Lyrics

Verse 1:
An insurance agent named Johnny B. Blank
Ran a run-down debit on the poor West Bank
In the hardest of times he endeavored to be
The number one man in the company

Verse 2:
"I'd prefer not to say what's become of my pay"
He stood up and spoke at a meeting one day
“But I hereby intend to reverse this trend
To triple my paycheck before the year's end"

Verse 3:
"Good luck Johnny Blank" someone said with a 
    smirk
"But the fact is the West Bank is all out of work"
Johnny looked at his colleague spoke steady and 
    clear
"I’ll be number one by the end of the year"

Chorus:
Oh Johnny
Positive thinking is all
that you need
To succeed

Verse 4:
From that day on Johnny Blank was possessed
Making pitch after pitch with fanatical zest
But no matter how hard he would push and persuade
He’d hear the sad song of the oil trade

Verse 5:
"The rigs are shut down and the boats are asleep
It's not worth their while because oil's too 
    cheap
My husband and brother my nephew and son
Have all been laid off as for money there's none"

[Repeat Chorus]

Verse 6:
So Johnny would leave but would not overlook
To write down their names in his prospect book
And always he did the best he could do
And always the list of his prospects grew
                
Verse 7:
Then at last the economy started to change
The price had gone up in the oil exchange
Business was booming as none had foreseen
From Buras to Boutte and in between

[Repeat Chorus]

Verse 8:
Now Johnny B. Blank was on top of the world
As dozens of pages of prospects unfurled
He'd written their names when they couldn't 
    afford
But now they had money and how it poured

Verse 9:
In the last few months of that famous year
Johnny B. Blank secured his career
He tripled his pay for a job well done
And true to his word he became number one

[Repeat Chorus 2x]


Words and Music (c) 1999
by Jack E Morris

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