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East Side StoryBob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger Doug Brown

[Verse 1]
Beneath the bare light bulb above
She gazed into the eyes of love
Bathed in the dirty neon light
She begged him "Don't go out tonight
If we work out somehow maybe
We could find a way out baby"
And he laughed and said "I got to go"
And she cried "No"
Johnny Johnny no
Oh Johnny Johnny no

[Verse 2]
His arms were warm and strong and young
"I promise I won't hurt no one
Oh baby when you gonna learn
Them folks uptown got bread to burn
When they see me flash my knife
They'll be fearin' for their life
They won't give me trouble this I know"
And she cried no
Oh Johnny Johnny no
Johnny Johnny Johnny no

[Verse 3]
The night passed like a thousand years
The tenement room had cooled her tears
Then came a knock upon the door
Two men she'd never seen before
"Did you know Johnny Brown, miss?
We hate to tell you this but
Has he a relative you know?"
And she cried no
Oh Johnny Johnny no
Johnny Johnny why'd you go?
Oh Johnny Johnny no
Johnny Johnny Johnny no

Bob Seger

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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