Cover art for Janelle by Cold Chisel

Janelle

Cold Chisel
Track 14 on The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You 

Producer

Mark Opitz
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Janelle Lyrics

Janelle, Janelle, Janelle
So far away
Goodnight, sweet dreams
The world is well
Janelle, Janelle, Janelle

Lookin' through your photograph
Talking through the telephone
I'm thinking through my plans for me
And you so all alone

Janelle, Janelle, Janelle
So far away
Goodnight, sweet dreams
The world is well
Janelle, Janelle, Janelle

Someday we'll wake up laughing
Put on our dancing shoes
You won't believe the tales I tell
That time, Janelle's not mine to choose

Janelle, Janelle, Janelle
So far away
Goodnight, sweet dreams
The world is well
Janelle, Janelle, Janelle

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Although often mistaken as a romantic song composed to a lost love, Janelle was written by Don Walker about his daughter, Janelle, then living in South Africa, on the other side of the world.

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The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You (2018)
  1. 1.
    Standing on the Outside
  2. 2.
    Khe Sanh
  3. 3.
    When The War Is Over
  4. 4.
    Bow River
  5. 5.
    Rising Sun
  6. 6.
    Lost
  7. 7.
    Star Hotel
  8. 8.
    All For You
  9. 9.
    Saturday Night
  10. 10.
    No Plans
  11. 11.
    Choirgirl
  12. 12.
    Conversations
  13. 13.
    Merry-Go-Round
  14. 14.
    Janelle
  15. 15.
    No Sense
  16. 16.
    Water Into Wine
  17. 17.
    Letter To Alan
  18. 18.
    The Last Wave Of Summer
  19. 19.
    Cheap Wine
  20. 20.
    Flame Trees
  21. 21.
    Forever Now
  22. 22.
    Breakfast At Sweethearts
  23. 23.
    Yakuza Girls
  24. 24.
    Four Walls
  25. 25.
    Long Dark Road
  26. 26.
    Ita
  27. 27.
    The Perfect Crime
  28. 28.
    You Got Nothing I Want
  29. 29.
    My Baby
  30. 30.
    Home and Broken Hearted
  31. 31.
    The Things I Love In You
  32. 32.
    Everybody
  33. 33.
    Shipping Steel
  34. 34.
    HQ454 Monroe
  35. 35.
    One Long Day
  36. 36.
    Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)
  37. 37.
    The Party’s Over
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