John Parr

Songwriter: John Parr

Producer: John Parr

Pretty girl on your daddy's knee
Candy kisses taste so sweet
Can't believe how my little girl has grown

Standin' here in your prom-queen dress
A few more years and she'll fly the nest
I still believe my baby's eight years old

When she saw those towers fall
It changed my little girl
She cut of all her ribbons and her curls

She's a fightin' girl
A woman who believes
She's a fightin' girl
Stands on her two feet
She's my kinda girl
And I wanna tell the world
That she's mine
Mine all mine
Mine all mine

Pretty lady down my street
Kinda girl I never thought I'd meet
Kinda girl I'd never call mine

Pretty girl I love you
I'll drink champagne from your shoe
I'm countin' down the days till we say I do

When she heard our nation's call
It changed my baby's world
She cut of all her ribbons
She cut off all her curls

She's a fighting' girl
A woman who believes
She's a fightin' girl
She stands on her own two feet
She's my kinda girl
And I wanna tell the world
She's mine
Mine all mine
Mine all mine

She don't make no compromise
She's the pride of her daddy's eyes

She's a fightin' girl
A woman who believes
She's a fighting girl
And I wanna tell the world

Stands on her two feet
She's a fighting girl
And I wanna tell the world
She's a fighting girl
A woman who believes
She's a fighting girl
She won't accept defeat
She's that kinda girl
And I wanna tell the world

That she's mine
Mine all mine
Mine all mine

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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