Manfred Mann My Name Is Jack

My name is Jack
And I live in the back of the Greta Garbo home
With friends I will remember
Wherever I will roam
And my name is Jack
And I live in the back of the Greta Garbo home for wayward boys and girls
We all love Jack and we live ....

There goes Fred with his hands on his head
'cos he thinks he heard the bomb
And here comes Superman
Who really puts it on.

There's lots of fun
And I love to run up and down the stairs
I make as much noise as I want
And no one ever cares.

And my name is Jack .....
We all love Jack ......

Carl over there with his funny old hair
And he's never sad at all
And when he I grow up I want to run
As fast as my friend Paul.

There's the prettiest girl in the whole wide world
And her name is Melody Mend
And here comes Ma with Brother Tom
Who's probably my best friend.

And my name is Jack .......

Category:

Music

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• Sixties
• 60s
• Manfred
• Mann
• My
• Name
• Is
• Jack

[brendafig]

Great song, and great to see the Manfreds having fun on stage. Thanks for posting!

[cjjloveseverybody]

great song, so sad with all the noise of today.

[operationmercury1941]

i was on acid when i first saw manfred mann play this song.

[sidefack]

Legendary. :')

[youngmick2]

bring it all back,coz my names Pat  and I carry a sack to the Greto Garbo homes...

[youngmick2]

In me little snapshot album:George Formby has some great things 2 answer 4.

[MothersHour]

I still think it is Paul Jones...the film he made with Jean Shrimpton was called Privilege, still lousy acting th o...

[BlackMonk66]

@joycejnn It turns out the song is on that soundtrack, but not by PPM, by the writer, John Simon.

I just checked out some Manfreds videos. Paul Jones kept his voice pretty well. Mike D'abo not as much, but clear, non-bluesy tenors don't age as well. Not that he's bad, he just doesn't have the same sound. I'd go see them if they played here. Don't think that'll happen soon, though.

[joycejnn]

@BlackMonk66 I think Peter , out of PP&M, was involved in making a film about "The Greta Garbo Home", called You are what you Eat.They're not my cup of tea either and "The Mighty Quintet" is an awful pun but I do like some of the Manfred Man stuff.

[BlackMonk66]

@joycejnn They do look a lot alike. Not so much now-they're both in The Manfreds-but they did then. When I checked to see if D'abo was still in the group, I found out two things. One, he wrote Build Me Up, Buttercup, which I probably knew and forgot, and two, he has a band called "the Mighty Quintet" which is the worst pun I've heard in a while, which I admire. Don't know about PP&M, not my cup of tea.

[joycejnn]

@girlblue73 The Greta Garbo home was a grand hotel that had fallen in to a state o disrepair and was then occupied by hippiesand druggies in the summer of love.

[joycejnn]

@BlackMonk66 Completely different voice than Paul Jones as well.I need to pay more attention.Isn't this a Peter,Paul and Mary song ? and they did a film about the place.