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Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)
"Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)"
Single by Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus
B-side"(Poor Old) Mr. Jensen"
ReleasedSeptember 1968
Recorded1968
GenreBubblegum pop
Length2:57
LabelBuddah
SongwritersJoey Levine and Artie Resnick

"Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)," is a bubblegum pop ballad, written by Joey Levine and Artie Resnick and performed by the Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus.[1]

A cover version by Irish group The Real McCoy was a success in Ireland.

Lyrics

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The lyrics describe a prisoner who escapes over a wall while weighed down with a ball and chain. He is pursued by a sheriff with hounds. Joey Small's lover, Mary Jane, had sent him a file baked inside a cake; the song ends with the sheriff going to Mary Jane's house — what happens next is left ambiguous.[2]

Song history

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The version reached #25 in the US charts.[3]

A cover version by Irish showband group Real McCoy was number one on the Irish Singles Chart for two weeks in January 1969.[4][5] The B-side was "Happiness Is Love" by Sons & Lovers.[6]

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