Jet Boy

About Jet Boy

"Jet Boy" is the closing track and second 7" single from the New York Dolls' self titled debut album. It was written by Dolls lead singer David Johansen and guitarist Johnny Thunders. The lyrics are simply about a jet boy who stole his baby. There is little explanation as to what a jet boy is other than to say that he flies around New York City. Tony Glover of Rolling Stone described the song as "Marvel Comics meets the Lower East Side."The New York Dolls famously performed "Jet Boy" on The Old Grey Whistle Test on 27 November 1973. After their performance, "Whispering" Bob Harris, host of the program, laughingly referred to the performance as "Mock rock."The original B-side to "Jet Boy" was the love song "Vietnamese Baby," written by David Johansen. According to journalist Steve Taylor, "Vietnamese Baby" dealt with the impact of the Vietnam War at the time on everyday activities for people, whose fun was undermined by thoughts of collective guilt. (Sample lyrics: "Catch me your slaves, shot at/Every riffle on the way and I gotta/Show you more mustard gas than any girl ever seen/Since I been blasted, I've been blown, I've been backing away/You've got to back it away/You've got to take a search of values/Yeah, But I've got a concert out to play") Album producer Todd Rundgren played synthesizers on the track. more »

Year:

2006

6:09

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Who's so fly up in the sky
Faster than any boy could ever describe?
Who has got a love so deep
With everything alive?

I said
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby

Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby

This's the kinda place where no one cares
What you're living for
And Jet Boy's so preoccupied
He don't care 'bout before

And that's why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby

Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby

My baby

Jet Boy's fly, you know
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby

Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby

We was all endangered charms
Swear we're havin fun
And Jet Boy goes after all we've done
That's why he's the one

That's why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby

Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby

My pretty baby
My pretty, pretty baby
My pretty baby

When I first came around this dump
I knew I couldn't stay
'Cause up above the world are Jet Boy
That's how I gotta play

Don't ya know why
Jet Boy's fly
Jet Boy's gone
Jet Boy stole my baby

Flyin' around New York City so high
Like he was my baby, like he was my baby
Like he was my baby, like he was my baby
Like he was my baby

Jet Boy's fly
And ya know he's gone
I said he been gone
Gone, gone, gone

And he been flying
He been flying
He's been flying
He's been flying

Baby, up all night
Baby, New York City
Baby, so, so high
Baby, so, so high

Don't you know that
Like he was my baby
Like he was my baby
Like he was my baby
Like he was my-my-my-my baby
My-my-my-my baby (like he was my baby)
My-my-my-my (Like he was my baby)
My baby, my baby (Like he was my baby)
M-m-m-m-m-my baby
My baby

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New York Dolls

The New York Dolls is an American rock band, formed in New York in 1971. The band's protopunk sound prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era; their visual style influenced the look of many new wave and 1980s-era glam metal groups, and they began the local New York scene that later spawned the Ramones, Blondie, Television and Talking Heads. more »

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