A Girl Called Johnny

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 about life or death"

She said "I've had enough of both"

A girl called Johnny who was not scared

They'd 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

With no looking back, with not 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 ashes and sand