A Girl Called Johnny

The Waterboys

Intro: x2 e|---------------12-------------------------12~| B|12--------12-13--13-12-----12--------12-13---| G|--14---14--------------14----14---14---------| D|----14~------------------------14~-----------| A|---------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------| ...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 e|---------------12-------------------------12---------| B|12--------12-13--13-12-----12--------12-13--13-12----| G|--14---14--------------14----14---14--------------14-| D|----14~------------------------14~-------------------| A|-----------------------------------------------------| E|-----------------------------------------------------| ... 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? Sax solo x2 ... I remember a girl called Johnny... the train came to town, boy she got on it Without looking back, without a word 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-ash-es and sand Ashes and sand, ashes and sand Outro x6

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