John Mellencamp - Hand To Hold On To Lyrics

I've loved this song for years & have never seen the video for until just now:)

John dances a lot like me.

That is not a compliment.

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A lot of different, imperfect voices back in the day which added to the music. Auto-tune ruins music and puts no talent hacks on stage these days.

Holding on to God, John.

timeless

When I was 16 years old and in high school I had a Monte Carlo SS super sport and one of the coolest guys in school with one of the most beautifulest girl in school we used to ride a round in the middle of the night and play this song and the car I had was totally awesome it was blue with a tag on the front that said blue thunder ! so ride on blue thunder in those hot summer nights I miss it all now I am 40 years old God I miss them days

I’m
Glad I was Born September 6,1958
Till 1993 The Greatest Music Era
Never Again
Seen over 4,500 Concerts

And his daughter Teddy is on a housewife show currently.

This has to be my favorite John Mellencamp tune. It doesn't get nearly as much airplay as some of his other songs, though.

Brings me back to listening to this on cassette in my 85 Blazer

Like paper and FIRE

Driving the young boys insane LOL cool so cool LOL

It does not matter does it John boy

At the end of the West ..Johnny and a rich hand...

I heard this song on the radio this morning, and it brought up so many good memories of the 80's. Would love to go back to those days, if even only for a moment or two...

Talk to me baby

I grew up with his music, when i went to bed as a kid I would put my headphones on and just dream.

Great song and video, love the location...

I think this my favorite song by John Melencamp. He did this song right

yeah,,i am hard too get,,

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This song is so true

this was the first video i ever saw.i was little..it was on the public station in atlanta

i was 12...1982

I love this song.

Go listen to Don Johnson’s song “Heartache Away”; it’s a complete rip-off of this song. It has the EXACT same melody. Mellencamp could probably win a plagiarism suit.

This song comes from a time when the musicians and their music had real passion and rocked you to your core... LOVE IT...John Cougar Mellencamp will always be one of my favorites.

Anyone know the exact location of this video? I’m sure it’s in Indiana somewhere

The 80's!!!!

MTV Flashback March 25 1983 almost 36 YEARS AGO ( 3/1119) This video played as I was a Sophmore in High School .( VHS tape has no time stamp)

Wanchic kicked ass on this song - but - Crane was in there too!

Mellencamp made a mistake getting rid of that original group/sound

you wrote it

Everyone sure does need a hand to hold on to. How bout you😎

There's nothing more American than John Mellencamp

Legs lol 😆🤗

You running from the fight Jamie? Before you go could you tell me why this is happening to me and why they took my heaven and pissed all over it

Charted in the top 10 this week in Dec of 82.

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I remember around that time , even though I was 9

Damn he's so hot😍😍😍

165 people apparently did not have a hand to hold onto.

My favorite by him cause of the simple fact. It's based on love!

John Mellon Cougarcamp sure had some good songs..

got on stage with john at the sydney entertainment centre in 1986 and sang this song im 56 now been a massive fan of his for 40 years his the best dale hall bulli nsw australia

Love it ... I wrote a similar themed song called "A Man Needs a Woman" when I was 23 ... Now that I'm "a liitle older so much older" I just need my tv and a glass of wine and some corn chips and cheese (-:

GREAT MTV MEMORIES AND HIGH SCHOOL MEMORIES. CLASS OF ROCKIN 84 HERE.

Everyone still loves you dear heart, I have to hear you daily😉🎼🎸 God Bless✝️

American Fool is the fifth studio album by John Mellencamp, released under the stage name John Cougar in 1982. The album was his commercial breakthrough, holding the #1 position on the Billboard album chart for nine weeks. It was one of 1982's best-selling albums.

jcm was a little cliché, grabbed hold of the "small town boy" image, thought he was a little prettier than he was, but no denying his songwriting and vocal talent, great band too, kept it simple but that's what worked, this coming from a U. KENTUCKY FAN!

Awesome...in the 80's this guy was the bomb.  Still is but we rocked out to him.

One of the BEST songs, WE all NEED a Hand to Hold on to!

138 don't like a hand to hold onto

tolle stimme

Justin beiber sucks !!

I love this song!!!!!!!!!!

Talk about flashbacks! Me and mom dancing in the living room to his music...they don't make em like him anymore! Kids now days have no clue

Temaza.

This song is hitting me really hard tonight. I just need a friend to hug me and tell me that it's gonna be alright

Randi Schlecht you are stronger than you think,you'll make it with or without a hand 💋❤💋❤

Alicos Smallwood thanks.

I miss talking to my friend alicos smallwood

Realize the internet generation is much younger! There was no internet when this came out!

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I need a hand to hold on to, Will you hold my hand John, Talk to me John, Talk to me John..

Hadn't heard this song in ages. Back when MTV still played Music.

In my younger days i would tell my boss you want work done dont touch my music,they let me play my music ,now my kids want mom to chill they play my music.

Cougar resisted all the synth driven stuff of the 80s

I used to dive in that quary, despite the spray painted no swimming warning of course...it was also in the movie Breaking Away  B-town in the eighties was the bombAlways one of my favorite Cougar, err Mellencamp songs

I need a hand to hold onto..please somebody talk to me!!

John looks so beautiful here 😍 and I love this song so much

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how you like this

I think so

Very glad I grew up to this music. So many of John's songs seemed to say what I was feeling at the time.

There will never be music like this again great great song

There's nothing like good old American rock and roll from back in the day!!

You said it.

You have a blessed video!!!

Btw I'm Tabatha c I do love the 2 male vocalist

I luv him he's wild crazy nb1of a kind there's only 2males aritst I really luv n there both before my time

🎶cool, so cool, SO COOL🎶😘

Lived with a funny girl a half a mile from that quarry, before they started burning lesbians in Indiana, although I'm not really one, or a gay man either- I never want to be.  Too much of a Bird Quarrys ending to suit my working at the car wash blues. here....  Nice try though, Kenny..

Anothersong I love- Thanks again

Awesomeness 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

great song, but one of the silliest videos ever

A Tune that Smashes Musically with Rockin' impressive hard hitting Lyrics This Song Kicksasss....

I love his music ;)

Justin b is a LIB Tool no talent

Where the heck is that?

Keith Bramstedt rock quarry in Indiana

80's MTV video's. Brings us back to a better time.

Hay public relations in this

In 1982-83 I wish I had Mtv and now I wish Viacom would go away.

Mike Wanchic, Larry Crane, Toby Meyers, Kenny Aronoff

But it's BS I had to watch a commercial before listening to the song. Fucking radio doesn't make you listen to'em this damn much... It's ever fucking song you click.. Did you fuckers know you can adjust them so we don't have to view em... Most of you do. Some of you don't. 3 different choices you can set on the properties. Making us watch them doesn't get you paid. CLICKING THEM gets you paid. I can't think of anyone who clicks these useless ads. YOU get paid by the LENGTH of the View. Seriously..... Check your stat's.

That shit is getting old.

Love it. Showing the bad asses they wanted to be. You know, brave, steady, willing to take chances. Let it all go! But still letting you know, everyone still needs, that hand to hold on to. And those who don't have it, will always feel left out. It's the truth. Not meant to be offensive. please don't see it that away.

GREAT SONG FROM AN ALL-TIME ALBUM

when this video hit mtv, I instantly fell in love

John is a naturally talented musician songwriter with no special effects videos or none of those flashy things like today's,singers

Sable Senegal yep! If ya have real talent you don't need any of that stuff & John M. is the real deal

lets all enjoy how truly blessed we are.....and all not ,,, please pray as we will with you,

This song is so true! Im older now, but sometimes i wish i could go back to 1969!Had my first baby! A beautiful girl! 👼💕💗💜💋Then had 3 handsome boys, now men!!!!!!! My daughter is 48 i think, 2 sons are in their 40's and the youngest 1 is in his 30s! He and his family live with me !But it still gets lonely! Im by myself most of the day, then when they get home they have things to do! There ready to relax and do whatever they do! The children 1 boy , 1girl help alot they are well mannered children! But completely different from each other! 💗💕💝💞💜👼💋I Love them very much! !!!!!!💜Gotta go now, I send everyone (Love and Light All the time) !✌👼😍

I'm a Hoosier & Johnny Cougar LOVER! Imagine that! He is one the best songwriters and musicians of my time. Thanks, John! ❤

My beautiful Mother passed, in 1999 of the worst breast cancer the doctors, said they had ever seen! She tryed everything the doctors suggested! But she left us to soon! !😢👼💜 Will Love Her till i die !👼💗💋

his best song

Wonder why this wasn't a big hit like Hurts So Good and Jack And Diane? I love the melody and I actually prefer it over those two. Might just be because its not played out on classic rock and 80s hits and AC radio stations.

oh look there it is to you jane

JPMcFly1985Two #FeelTheBern your probably still wondering why nobody felt the bern except bern, when he got burned hahahaha. Fuck Bernie sanders, I'll urinate on his grave in less than 3 years when he croaks of old age.

What's that have to do with this song? lol. And uh, John's a liberal just so you know. (Better hold your bladder, Bernie's an OG, he'll probably live to be 100)

Hey i dont like liberals either but Mellencamp's political view has nothing to do with his musical abilities. He's a talented individual!! (maybe not so much now that he's 65yrs old but he rocked for close to 40yrs!!) since the 2016 campaign, I'm finding out that alot of my favorite artist from the 80's have liberal political views (which sucks!) People used to keep it to themselves but times have sure changed!!