Little Johnny Everything

(Album: When They Were Young - 1957)

There's a little boy at our house who's as happy as can be
'Cause he's always doing something keeping busy as a bee
He can make believe he's anyone or almost anything
And that is why we call him Little Johnny Everything

This imagination takes him anyplace or anywhere
If he wants to be an engineer he gets the part of chair
Then he climbs aboard and blows a whistle gives the bell a ring
It's clear the track the clickety clack I'm Johnny Everything

When he wants to be a fireman it's clang clang clang
As a fire engine raise around the floor
Everyone wants to be a cowboy then it's bang bang bang
As he chases all the engines out the door

When his busy day is over and he's tucked up in his bed
Little Johnny is so tired and he's such a sleepy head
So he makes believe he's in a boat and to himself you'll sing
I'm sailing off to dreamland Little Johnny Everything

When he wants to be an airoplaned, zoom
As he makes the perfect landing on the floor
If he wants to be a soldier then it's boom, boom, boom
As he shoots his cannons off to win a war

And when I come home from working
And my weary day is through
And my little make believer says
Come on I'll play with you

And he throws his arms around me
And he bounces on my knee
That's when Little Johnny Everything
Means everything to me...