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Surabaya Johnny Lyrics by Dagmar Krause

Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill

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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
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Dagmar Krause

Dagmar Krause

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