JOE SOAP


Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh

Johnny can the tell me, who Joe Soap could really be?
He’s a little part of everyone, even you an’ me.
Is he someone important, Gerry Ryan or the Pope.
No before he’s only just an’ ordinary Joe Soap.

Chorus

I reads it in the paper an’ I sees it on the news.
I hear it when the politicians emphasise their views.
They talk about this Joe Soap, Joe Soap in the street.
But no matter where we look for him, Joe Soap we cannot meet.

No telephone directory, has his name on any page. 
No one has ever seen a photograph, to guess his age.
The postman with the letter is in such a distress.
Because no body, no where, can tell him Joes address.

I told the children in the school, I hadn’t found him yet.
They said your gonna have ta look upon the Internet. 
Then surfing through the Internet, now what did I derive.
They said, there’s no such man as Joe Soap, in this world alive.

Chorus

I reads it in the paper an’ I sees it on the news.
I hear it when the politicians emphasise their views.
They talk about this Joe Soap, Joe Soap in the street.
But no matter where we look for him, Joe Soap we cannot meet.

We reads it in the paper an’ we sees it on the news.
We hear it when the politicians emphasise their views.
They talk about this Joe Soap, Joe Soap in the street.
But no matter where we look for him, Joe Soap we cannot meet.

(Richie) … “Johnny, Johnny its quare hard ta find him”

(Johnny)… “Be gore, when he wasn’t on the Internet, I don’t know, I don’t know?”

(Richie)… “Maybe, maybe we should try the tribunal”

(Johnny) ..”Ah no, we won’t try the tribunal, that’d take too long lad”

(Richie) … “Ah we may lave it so, Johnny”  .

(Johnny)… “I think so”

(Richie) ….”We may lave it so, lave it, we’ll lave it so”

(John) ..”Ya, Ya, Ya”