I remember Johnny-hey
Johnny come lately
I remember her shoes like a ballerina
A girl called Johnny who
Changed her name when she
Discovered her choice was to
Change or to be changed
I remember a girl called Johnny
Black as hell and white as a ghost
Don't talk please about life and death
She'd say i've had enough of both
A girl called Johnny who was not scared
They would have torn her to pieces but
Who would dare
I remember a girl called Johnny
The train came to town,boy!she got on it
Without looking back,barely a word
If she said goodbye well I never heard
But the noise goes on
The noise! The jazz!
And the truth is in somebody else's hands
And the house that a girl called Johnny built
is now just so much
Ashes and sand