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Jennie Goes Down in History

from Hagiographies and Hit Pieces by Johnny Coull

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Jennie, libidinous, venomous
Led him on, lured him in, now she’s ended it
Sentencing proceeds without a hitch
On the Sistine restroom panes
Where the boozehounds paint her name

Jennie goes down in history
Jennie is guilty
Jennie goes down in history
History’s all that she will be

Man, he’s so innocent, ain’t she penitent?
Courtroom remedy, crime of the century
“Women,” one spits, as they dream up the details
So the sexless husbands tweet
To the parson’s drumhead beat

As Jennie goes down in history
Jennie is guilty
Jennie goes down in history
Something else, ain’t she?

In the tabloid of her life
The headlines multiply
They send pharisees out
Yes, they’ve figured her out
So she’ll pay her little visits
To the shaman’s feel-good clinic
He will comfort her with easy lies
It’s easy to be right
When everything’s wrong
When everyone’s born all wrong

In that village, the pillaging’s finished
The centuries flicker by, fading her image
A burial in thrown shade and Cheshire smiles
But, to this day, their fingernails still sprout
Six feet beneath the ground

Jennie goes down in history
Jennie is guilty
Jennie goes down in history
All that she will be
Jennie goes down in history
Jennie is guilty
Jennie goes down in history
Something else, ain’t she?
Jennie is guilty
Jennie is history
Jennie is history

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from Hagiographies and Hit Pieces, released July 31, 2023

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Johnny Coull Montréal, Québec

Johnny Coull is an independent singer-songwriter based in Montreal, Canada. His debut album, “City on the Hill”, was released in November 2013.

Firmly entrenched in the vintage rock tradition, Coull tackles intensely personal themes, at once melancholy and incisive, set over punchy melodies, bright choruses, and virtuosic piano licks. ... more

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