Key: A
Introduction: Am Am G G D D F G
Am G
...I remember Johnny - hey!... Johnny come lately
D F G
...I remember her shoes like a... ballerina
Am G D
...A girl called Johnny who... changed her name when she
D F G
Discovered her choice was to change or to be changed
Am G
... I remember a girl called Johnny... black as hell and white as a ghost
D F G
... Don't talk about life or death she said "I've had enough of both"
Am G D
... A girl called Johnny who - was - not - scared
D F G
... They'd have torn her to pieces but who would dare?
Sax solo
Am G
... I remember a girl called Johnny... the train came to town, boy she got on it
D F G
Without looking back, without a word she said goodbye, well I never heard
Am
but the noise goes on, the noise, the jazz
G
And the truth is in somebody else's hands
D F G Am
And the house that a girl called johnny built is now-just-ash-es and sand
G D F G
Ashes and sand, ashes and sand