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"Run Joey Run" is a teenage tragedy song performed by soft rock singer David Geddes.
It was his biggest US Top 40 hit single, peaking at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart in the fall of 1975, and topping the charts on Cashbox Magazine's Top 100.
The song opens with a brief snippet of wordless choral a cappella singing, then abruptly cuts to the voice of a woman pleading with her father:
Daddy, please don't! It wasn't his fault; he means so much to me. Daddy, please don't! We're going to get married; just you wait and see.
Geddes sings from first person narrative in the character of Joey who recalls the events leading up to a recent tragedy involving his now-deceased girlfriend Julie, an event he involuntarily relives in his mind every time he tries to sleep.
Late one night, Julie calls Joey, warning him not to come to her house; she and her father have just had a violent fight about her relationship with Joey. Though not explicitly stated in the lyrics, her father's desire for Joey to "pay for what we've done" and her promise of marriage implies that the couple have had sex and Julie has become pregnant. Julie warns Joey that her father is armed and urges him to run away. However, Joey, ignoring his own peril, rushes to her house instead. A battered and crying Julie rushes to Joey's arms.
Julie's father sneaks up behind them with his gun, intending to shoot Joey, but before the father pulls the trigger, Julie attempts to push Joey out of danger; when her father shoots, he hits Julie instead. Julie falls, mortally wounded. Joey holds her in his arms; she quietly repeats her pleas to her father as her last words but loses consciousness as she again says "we're gonna get married".
The accompaniment suddenly stops, the choral section is reprised, and the song closes with the refrain "Run, Joey, run" repeated several times before the song ends.
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Run Joey Run
"Run Joey Run" is a teenage tragedy song performed by soft rock singer David Geddes.
It was his biggest US Top 40 hit single, peaking at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart in the fall of 1975, and topping the charts on Cashbox Magazine's Top 100.
The song opens with a brief snippet of wordless choral a cappella singing, then abruptly cuts to the voice of a woman pleading with her father:
Daddy, please don't! It wasn't his fault; he means so much to me. Daddy, please don't! We're going to get married; just you wait and see.
Geddes sings from first person narrative in the character of Joey who recalls the events leading up to a recent tragedy involving his now-deceased girlfriend Julie, an event he involuntarily relives in his mind every time he tries to sleep.
Late one night, Julie calls Joey, warning him not to come to her house; she and her father have just had a violent fight about her relationship with Joey. Though not explicitly stated in the lyrics, her father's desire for Joey to "pay for what we've done" and her promise of marriage implies that the couple have had sex and Julie has become pregnant. Julie warns Joey that her father is armed and urges him to run away. However, Joey, ignoring his own peril, rushes to her house instead. A battered and crying Julie rushes to Joey's arms.
Julie's father sneaks up behind them with his gun, intending to shoot Joey, but before the father pulls the trigger, Julie attempts to push Joey out of danger; when her father shoots, he hits Julie instead. Julie falls, mortally wounded. Joey holds her in his arms; she quietly repeats her pleas to her father as her last words but loses consciousness as she again says "we're gonna get married".
The accompaniment suddenly stops, the choral section is reprised, and the song closes with the refrain "Run, Joey, run" repeated several times before the song ends.