| 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 OK.
When I asked how you earned your
living,
I can still hear what you said to me:
You had some kind of job on the
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 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 so.
Surabaya Johnny,
Why am I feeling so blue
?
You have no heart, Johnny,
And I still love you so.
At the start, every day was
Sunday,
Till we went on our way one fine night.
And before two more weeks were over,
You
thought nothing I did was right.
So we trekked 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
sewed your lips, Johnny,
And that was that.
You wanted it all, Johnny,
I gave you more,
Johnny.
Take that 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
so.
Surabaya Johnny,
Why am I feeling so blue ?
You have no heart, Johnny.
And I
still love you so.
I would never have thought of asking
How you'd got that peculiar
name,
But from one end of the coast to the other
You were known everywhere we came.
And
one day i |
