One Of The Survivors lyrics

Song information

Artist: Kinks
Album: Preservation: Act 1

Lyrics

(Sung by johnny thunder and chorus)

See johnny thunder sitting on his motorbike
Riding along the highway
Rock and roll songs from the nineteen-fifties
Buzzing around in his brain
Johnny thunder he's one of the original bebop generation
And he's got no time for complicated music or too much sophistication

He's one of the survivors
The motorbike riders
You ought to see johnny thunder riding down the highway
One of the rock and roll survivors
Twelve bars flowing through his brain
He digs jerry lee lewis, dion and the belmonts
And johnny & the hurricanes

He plays hound dog, oh boy, and great balls of fire
And boppin' at the high school hop
And he's got no time for phonies or posers
'Cos they don't know how to reel and rock
And he plays little egypt and ooh poo pah doo
And he plays poison ivy and blue suede shoes
The hollywood argyles, danny & the juniors
Dion & the belmonts, johnny & the hurricanes

He's one of the survivors
The boppers and the jivers
Yeah and he rocks all day
Johnny & the hurricanes, johnny & the hurricanes

Got my freedom riding along the freeway
I ride a hundred miles an hour but I don't mess up my d.a
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock 'n' roll
You can't stop rock 'n' rollin' music play
(Repeat last two lines)

Feel those vibrations flow in my brain
Got my freedom riding down the highway
Keeps me sane, feel alive
I'm one of the survivors

Feel all right
First gear, second gear, third gear, fourth gear, all right
Old johnny thunder looks a little overweight
And his sideburns are turning grey
But he still likes to bebop, boogie and jive
To his worn out seventy-eights
Johnny thunder
He's alright
He's one of the survivors
Twelve bars flowing through his brain
Jerry lee lewis, dion & the belmonts
Johnny & the hurricanes, johnny & the hurricanes