Surabaya Johnny

Lyrics

I had just turned sixteen that season When you came up from Burma to stay And you told me I ought to travel with you You were sure it would be okay When I ask how you are and you're living I can still hear what you said to me You had some kind of job with a railway And had nothing to do with the sea You said a lot, Johnny All one big lie, Johnny You cheated me blind, Johnny From the minute we met I hate you so, Johnny When you stand there grinning, Johnny Take that damned pipe out of your mouth You rat Surabaya Johnny, no one's meaner than you Surabaya Johnny, my god, and I still love you Surabaya Johnny, why I'm feeling so blue You have no heart, Johnny and I still love you so At thе start, everyday was Sunday Till we wеnt on our way one fine night But before two or weeks were over You though nothing I did was right So we dragged up and down through the Punjab From the source of the river to the sea When I look at my face in the mirror There's an old woman staring back at me You didn't want love, Johnny You wanted cash, Johnny But I only saw, Johnny Your lips You wanted it all, Johnny I gave you more, Johnny Take the dumb pipe out of your mouth You rat Surabaya Johnny, no one's meaner than you Surabaya Johnny, my god, and I still love you Surabaya Johnny, why I'm feeling so blue You have no heart, Johnny and I still love you so I would never have thought of asking Where you got that peculiar name But from one end of the coast to the other You were known everywhere we came And one day in a cheap hotel room I'd wake up to the roar of the sea And you'd leave without one word of warning On the ship waiting down at the key You have no heart, Johnny You're just a Johnny How can you go, Johnny And leave me like that? You're still my love, Johnny Like the day we met, Johnny Take the damn pipe out of your mouth You rat Surabaya Johnny, no one's meaner than you Surabaya Johnny, my god, and I still love you Surabaya Johnny, why I'm feeling so blue You have no heart, Johnny and I still love you so