Del Shannon: ‘Runaway’

Del Shannon’s Runaway is No. 472 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time!

As a kid, Shannon got his first guitar for $5. His truck-driver dad wasn’t too happy about it. “‘You get that goddamn guitar outta here’ — that’s the exact words my father used,” Shannon recalled. For example, “However, my ma said, ‘It’s OK, son. You can sing for me.” This helped Del sing this hit with raw emotion; co-writer Crook played the solo on an early electronic keyboard called the Musitron.

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Writers: Del Shannon, Max Crook

Producers: Harry Balk, Irving Micahnik   Released: March ’61, Big Top

Spent 17 weeks at No. 1! 

Lyrics for “Runaway”

As I walk along, I wonder

A-what went wrong with our love

A love that was so strong

And as I still walk on, I think of

The things we’ve done together

While our hearts were young

I’m a-walkin’ in the rain

Tears are fallin’ and I feel the pain

Wishin’ you were here by me

To end this misery

I wonder

I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder

Why

Why, why, why, why, why

She ran away

And I wonder

Where she will stay

My little runaway

A-run, run, run, run, runaway

I’m a-walkin’ in the rain

Tears are fallin’ and I feel the pain

Wishin’ you were here by me

To end this misery

And I wonder

I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder

Why

Why, why, why, why, why

She ran away

And I wonder

Where she will stay

My little runaway

A-run, run, run, run, runaway

Arun, run, run, run, runaway

A-run, run, run, run, runaway

Traveling Wilburys-Runaway (Del Shannon`s song)

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