mondayz tunez #11 :: another happy-happy song
Hello everyone! Sorry for disappearing for this long. Holidaying with my family was great and very relaxing but I’m still at my parents’ house which means my Internet connection sucks (when it actually works, that is). This is the reason I have been unable to post anything. I have managed to connect today though and I am happy to present you with another one of my Mondayz Tunez. I am sorry that the last Monday Tune I posted was not uploaded properly. Like I said my connection here sucks. I’ve tried to fix and the only thing I managed to do is upload just a slightly longer part of the song.
So let me introduce to you this week’s Monday Tune: I adore this song! It is so happy and uplifting that I can’t help dancing/singing along every time I hear it. In fact it is my favourite song out of all the songs this band has made and they have produced some great songs!
I give you Dire Straits and the “Walk of Life”
I also found out that our favourite yoshi is doing a Tuesday Tune special on his site so head on to yoshi’s blog on Tuesdays for another dose of weekly music!
Update: I forgot to say that the beautiful Luka is also posting a song every Tuesday as well. So click over to Luka’s blog tomorrow and every Tuesday to listen to her choice of the week!
Video and Lyrics after the bump…
Videos:
According to the wikipedia page dedicated to the Walk of Life song, they made two different videos. The US version which included sports bloopers as well as the band performing the song:
and a different video shown in the UK which showed the band and a street performer performing the song:
I haven’t been lucky enough to catch this song on TV so I have never seen these videos before. If you have and I have made a mistake in posting these then please correct me.
Lyrics:
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-bop-a-lua, baby what I say
Here comes Johnny singing I gotta woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah, the boy can play
Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day
He do the song about the sweet lovin’ woman
He do the song about the knife
He do the walk, he do the walk of life
Here comes Johnny and hell tell you the story
Hand me down my walkin’ shoes
Here come Johnny with the power and the glory
Backbeat the talkin’ blues
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah, the boy can play
Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day
He do the song about the sweet lovin’ woman
He do the song about the knife
Then he do the walk, he do the walk of life
Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-bop-a-lula, baby what I say
Here comes Johnny singing I gotta woman
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah the boy can play
Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day
And after all the violence and double talk
There’s just a song in all the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of life
Related posts:
mondayz tunez #17 :: accidental success
mondayz tunez #20 :: one of the many songs we both like
mondayz tunez #13 :: slow down you’re gonna crash
mondayz tunez #19 :: i want to be somewhere warmer
mondayz tunez #15 :: electric blue for me
Luka said:I lalala LOVE this song!
Good choice. (What’s funny is that Yoshi “stole” the idea from me, after I “stole” it from you.)
Commented on September 3rd, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Luka said:oooh videos! those are cool!
Commented on September 3rd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Colin Brooks said:“Stole” is such a harsh word. You were simply inspired by what I was doing…
I’m glad you like this song! I am listening to a very weird song right now which says goes: “Ooooh you touch my tra-la-laaaaa, mmmm my ding ding dong” it’s so funny! It’s called the Ding Dong Song… Quality, my friend…!
Luka said:exactly. I was inspired by you. & on the firstone I did I totally credted you
http://www.incogblogo.net/index.php/awesome/comments/3685/
oh. my. god. i’ve HEARD that song!
it’s a riot! 
Commented on September 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Colin Brooks said:It is a mad song! I know that you did credit me. I don’t mind of course and if I had realised earlier I’d had already linked back to you.