The KKK Took My Baby Away

The KKK Took My Baby Away is a song of the Ramones written by Joey Ramone. It appears for the first time on the album Pleasant Dreams (1981).

Many fans of the Ramones affirm that this song was written by Joey after the guitarist of the Ramones Johnny Ramone “had stolen” the boyfriend of Joey, Linda. The reference to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) symbolizes the preserving political ideas of Johnny, which influenced this last in its way of managing the group, in extreme cases of authoritarianism. Johnny started first of all by seeing Linda in hiding-place, without the knowledge of Joey. Thereafter, Linda forsook Joey to leave with Johnny without hiding; both married thereafter.

Joey never forgave with Johnny “to have stolen” that to him which he regarded as his MUSE, and they were not reconciled even when Joey was reached of a cancer of the Lymphe.

However, some advance another assumption as for the origin of this Chanson. Several reported recently that Joey had worked on this song since the middle of the years 1970, which would explain why the tempo of this Chanson holds more of the first compositions of the Ramones than those of the era of Pleasant Dreams . The distinctive agreements of guitar were directly influenced by the Chanson He' S.A. Whore of Cheap Trick. Some also think that the agreements of Guitare were directly copied relatively ignored song Laser Coils group T-Rex.

This song was taken again by Marilyn Manson on the album homage We' Re has Happy Family . It was also taken again by Pearl Jam, Face to Face, Relient K, MxPx, Dead Kennedys, The Ordinary Boys, The Misfits, Dragonfly, Die Ärzte, The Ataris, Guttermouth and Rough Bullet.

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