Bert Smeets new album ‘hole and corner’, nr 7 ‘Soft-Johny’

https://bertsmeets.bandcamp.com/album/hole-and-corner-album

Ah! Soft-Johny schreef ik naar aanleiding van enkele sporadische types (nog te vinden in het uitgaansleven) die vanuit het dorp een meisje in de stad wilden versieren!! Dat was de aanleiding, ik vroeg de gast, die dansend door de kroeg (Le Barrock) paradeerde of hij Marilyn Monroe verwachtte tegen te komen?

SOFT-JOHNNY

Soft-Johnny get off the ba-ba crutch

try to speak (z)something I believe it was Dutch

babe I’ve got to piddle, round and round to fiddle

I just want you to know I’m a riddle

oh babe you got to love yourself

babe you got to love yourself

no I won’t do it to hurt myself

no I won’t do it to hurt myself

Soft-Johnny’s ‘hang-round’ the Go-Go scene

Well keep a secret like a Kennedy

he’s loyal lover, a holy donut

I just want Marilyn Monroe to love me

oh babe you got to love yourself

no I won’t do it to hurt myself

babe you got to love yourself

no I won’t do it to hurt myself

Soft Johnny come to) the down-town scene

He’s never drunken and he’s never clean

Why don’t you come over

Babe please come closer

I just want you to rub my shoulder

Oh babe got to hurt myself, oh no no

Never been touching myself

I know you got to love yourself

Know you got to love yourself

Soft-Johnny…soft-johnny