The Waterboys – A Girl Called Johnny (Guitar)

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Chords

[intro] Am Am C C D D Dm Dm7 x2
sax starts
  Am     C                   D      Dm      Dm7
e|---------------12-------------------------12~|
B|12--------12-13--13-12-----12--------12-13---|
G|--14---14--------------14----14---14---------|
D|----14~------------------------14~-----------|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|

Am                      C
...I remember Johnny - hey!... Johnny come lately

D                              Dm         Dm7
...I remember her shoes like a... ballerina

Am                       C                            D
...A girl called Johnny who... changed her name when she

D                             Dm         Dm7
Discovered her choice was to change or to be changed

   Am     C                   D      Dm     Dm7
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|-----------------------------------------------------|

Am                                   C
... I remember a girl called Johnny... black as hell and white as a ghost

D                                       Dm               Dm7
... Don't talk about life or death she said "I've had enough of both"

Am                       C                  D
... A girl called Johnny who - was - not - scared 

D                                      Dm         Dm7
... They'd have torn her to pieces but who would dare?
Sax solo Am Am C C D D Dm Dm7 x2
Am                                  C
... I remember a girl called Johnny... the train came to town, boy she got on it

D                                         Dm                Dm7
Without looking back, without a word she said goodbye, well I never heard

Am                    
but the noise goes on, the noise, the jazz

C 
And the truth is in somebody else's hands

        D                                         Dm      Dm7         Am
And the house that a girl called johnny built is now-just-ash-es and sand

            C              D       Dm         Dm7        
Ashes and sand, ashes and sand

Am C D Dm Dm7
Outro x6 (end of Am)