A Girl Called Johnny - The Waterboys

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 so much ashes and sand