Surabaya Johnny

[LILLIAN]

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 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'm I feeling so blue?

You have no heart, Johnny

And I still love you so

At the start, every day was Sunday

'Til 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 saw 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 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 two-bit flophouse

I'll wake up to the roar of the sea

And you'll leave without one word of warning

On a ship waiting down at the quay

You have no heart, Johnny!

You're just a louse, Johnny!

How could you go, Johnny

And leave me flat?

You're still my love, Johnny

Like the day we met, 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