Johnny Guitar Watson staring at me
 Riding on 3 wheels, a woman on his knee
 With a leg under a red dress I wish I could see
 Further North a warmth alive & lingering

Now Johnny he be having lots of women
 Oh The reason he be smiling known to him

On the left the girl in red so innocent
 Never sheds her clothes even when she goes to bed
 The type of girl responsible foriginal sin
 Can’t help but wonder where & who she is

And the memory is always getting clearer
 For that’s 30 years or more I’ve loved her so
 And how I need to know,.. Why she’s with him

And I sleep with the light on,.. In case [bad word] 
 And I sleep with the light on,.. In case she

Recently as I was waiting on a dream
 She came to visit lost & lonely me
 She leaned over the bed & with her lips above my head
 She asked if I had seen her Johnny

Oh and I hide my disappointment
 Cause for years I had been hoping
 Oh yeah I had been hoping
 That when she came, she [bad word] for me

I hide my disappointment
 Cause for years I had been hoping
 that when she came,
 she'd [bad word] just for me