The KKK Took My Baby Away

Well, the story about Johnny stealing Joey's girlfriend is true and Joey didn't ever really get over that and wrote LOTS of songs about it. But in fact this is not one of them. I used to think so too, this rumour was supported by lots of important Ramones biographies (the documentary, Monte Melnick's book etc.) but in his new book, Mickey Leigh, Joey's brother, disproves it. The real story behind the song: Joey used to date a black girl when he was a teenager. Those girl's parents didn't want their daughter to go out with a white guy, so Joey and Mickey jokingly refered to them as the "KKK". It was - as some wise guy mentioned earlier - written years after that: in 1980, when Linda and Joey still were together. I understand how this myth could get so big, it would be just too perfect with the circumstances: Johnny stealing Linda away from Joey and being a hardcore conservative and the timing of the release of the song was perfect, too, but - I have to say unfortunately - it's not the truth. Sorry, folks.

My undertanding of this song was always that his girlfriend had run off and left him and he was just making excuses, trying to convince himself that there was some other reason why she hadn't come back.

Has anyone thought that they were maybe just lyrics? I mean, these were he Ramones. maybe they just thought it sounded good. Not everything has a deeper meaning. Or maybe i'm just lazy and don't want to look into it.

It's about how his girlfriend has gone on holiday and not come back and he is making up reasons about what might have happened, when really she has just left him. It has nothing to do with the KKK or racism or anything like that.

WE GOT TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG IN SOCIAL STUDIES

Duh,, u stupid idiot.

His baby is his girlfriend

i thought every half-decent Ramones fan knew the story behind this song, "ZZZZZ" was the onlyone who seemd to know the story,

Joey wrote it about Johnny stealing his girlfriend Linda, who Johnny later married. Johnny was a NRA card-holder (NRA was founded just after KKK was made illegal)

Joey and Johnny did not realy talk to each other for the rest of their lives but somehow managed to keep touring together for another 15 or so years. Also Joey was a Democrate supporter and Johnny a Republican.

Umm... no,, it's not about an actual child. It's about a girlfriend. I'm really not qualified to interpret this song anymore than that, but it is absolutely NOT about an actual infant.

yeah but is he saying that he had a black baby and shit or what i dont understand???

joey is god!!!!! the ramones all together are the best!!! and this is one of my all time favorites of the ramones