John Parr

Songwriter: John Parr

Producer: John Parr

My heart is beating like a drum
This lifetime moment has come

It's in me
It's in you
The sacred thread
Red, white and blue
We are bound by the thread of the flag

Sing it loud
Sing it proud
Let the heavenly choir sound
We are bound by the thread of the flag

And now the battle is won
Our country's glory lives on

It's in me
It's in you
The sacred thread
Red, white and blue
We are bound by the thread of the flag

Sing it loud
Sing it proud
Let the heavenly choir sound
We are bound by the thread of the flag

Old Glory's sewn
With threads of hope
And each star and stripe
Is you and I

And at the setting of the sun
A single trumpet and a drum

Lay me down
Lay me down
In the warm forgiving ground
I am bound by the thread of the flag

Sing it loud
Sing it proud
Let the heavenly choir sound
We are bound by the thread of the flag

Sing it loud
Sing it proud
Let the heavenly choir sound
I am bound, you are bound
We are bound, we are bound
Bound by the thread of the flag

John Parr (born 18 November 1952) is a Grammy-nominated English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 single “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)” and for his 1984 single “Naughty Naughty” (US Rock #1). Parr was nominated for a Grammy award for “St Elmo’s Fire” in 1985.

Parr first entered the music scene when he was 12 years old and formed a band with two fellow schoolmates, which they named The Silence. The band had achieved some success. They eventually became professional and started to tour Europe. He then joined a band named Bitter Suite who were a huge success in the working men’s clubs in Yorkshire, he then formed a “Super Band” with musicians from other working men’s club bands, and named the band Ponders End , a band that set a new precedent for the bands in the north.

Parr secured a publishing deal with Carlin America in 1983 and in the same year Meat Loaf asked him to write some songs for his new album. It led to a fateful meeting with John Wolff, who was tour manager for The Who. Foreseeing the initial demise of The Who, Wolff was looking for a new venture and considered Parr to be a suitable partner. Parr first visited America in 1984 and worked with Meat Loaf on Bad Attitude. Meanwhile, Wolff secured Parr’s solo Atlantic recording deal in New York.

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