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Entries in Benny and the Jets (1)

Saturday
Mar062010

Elton John, "Benny and the Jets" (Live)

My favorite Elton John, I should say. Since the 1990s. Anyone familiar with the fact that this song was featured in the film, My Girl(1991)?  I don't know what it is, it must be Benny and the Jets, this song just rings the bell. My song. B-B-B-Benny and the Jets!

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Hey kids, shake it loose together, the spotlight's hitting something
That's been known to change the weather, we'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around, you're gonna hear electric music, solid walls of sound

Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet, but they're so spaced out
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful, oh Bennie, she's really keen
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Hey kids, plug into the faithless, maybe they're blinded
But Bennie makes them ageless we shall survive, let us take ourselves along,
Where we fight our parents out in the streets to find who's right and who's wrong,

Oh, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet, but they're so spaced out
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful, oh Bennie, she's really keen
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets!

Bennie, Bennie and the Jets! Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets!