I remember Johnny - hey!
 [bad word] lately
I remember her shoes like a ballerina
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 [bad word] and white as a ghost
"Don't talk about life or death"
she said "I've had enough of both"
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 [bad word] is in somebody else's hands
and the house that a girl called johnny built
is now just ashes and sand